Greensboro Historical Museum Archives

This organization has contributed to the following objects in the Encyclopedia.

Portrait of Ceasar Cone (1859-1917). From Half Century Book 1891-1941 (Greensboro, NC: Cone Export & Commission Co., 1941), p. 17.

Herman Cone (1828-1897) was the father of Moses and Ceasar Cone. A first-generation immigrant, Herman Cone (born Kahn) left his…

Portrait of Moses Cone (1856-1908). From Half Century Book 1891-1941 (Greensboro, NC: Cone Export & Commission Co., 1941), p. 15.

Published in a book commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Cone Export and Commission Co., this interior shot of the “weave…

This aerial view of Proximity, the Cone brothers’ first textile production plant, appeared in a publication commemorating the fiftieth anniversary…