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Whittier Cotton Mills (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Maggie Grier's Whittier Cotton Mill notebooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS784f
Scope and Content

This collection contains two notebooks used by Maggie Grier, and later her daughter-in-law Ruth, for their work at Whittier Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Georgia. The notebooks contain draft patterns and notes used to create textiles.

Dates: approximately 1950

Whittier Cotton Mills photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS462
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of Whittier Cotton Mills employees, primarily from the cafeteria and spinning room. Also included are images of people and entities not connected to Whittier Cotton Mills, such as Chattahoochee School and Riverside Church of God group portraits and leased convict laborers for the Chattahoochee Brick Company. Of special note are images of the Whittier Cotton Mills baseball team.

Dates: approximately 1895-1969, undated

Whittier Cotton Mills records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS558
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is correspondence that Whittier Cotton Mills received from local and national suppliers and clients such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Southern Railroad. Other correspondence documents product pricing and sales, some of which includes interoffice memos; the construction of new company housing and plant #5; receipt of bids; and construction contracts with Silver Lake Company. The collection also contains payroll checks. Of particular note are invoices and...
Dates: 1897-1933 (bulk 1926-1933)

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Subject
Convict labor -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Cotton industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Cotton trade -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Manufacturing industries -- Georgia -- Employees 2
Textile workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2