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Interview no. | I-0106 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | I.2. Business History: North Carolina Business History |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1999, with leaders of traditional and emergent North Carolina industries, such as furniture, banking, tobacco products, textiles, poultry, food and food services, tourism, pharmaceuticals, computers, and steel. Interviewees describe the origins and evolution of their companies; changes and problems they confront; the impact of businesses on the communities in which they operate; and regional, national, and global developments that will affect future prospects. |
Date | 10 June 1997 |
Interviewee | Pickering, Diana Cecil. |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity |
African Americans Native Americans |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Topics included growing up in Asheville (North Carolina), early career, involvement with the Biltmore Company, retail operations of the company, the catalog business, the furniture industry, new projects, the company's involvement with the community, labor relations, changes and strategies, business philanthropy, balancing career with family, women's style of leadership. |
Subject Topical |
Businesswomen--North Carolina. Business--History. Tourism--North Carolina. |
Subject Name | Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Diana Cecil Pickering by Dorothy Darr, 10 June 1997 I-0106, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | I0106_Audio_1 |