Chattahoochee Brick Company (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Chattahoochee Brick Company convict flyers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS666f
Scope and Content
This collection includes two convict flyers. Dated January 20, 1888, the first one offers a total reward of $450 for the return of two convicts and two mules to the Chattahoochee Brick Company in Atlanta, Georgia. The convicts of the Georgia Penitentiary escaped from the Chattahoochee Brick Company’s camp on the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus (C. R. & C.) Railroad on January 19, 1888. Julius K. Ward, of Floyd County, had been sentenced to seven years for voluntary manslaughter, and...
Dates:
1888
Chattahoochee Brick Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83
Scope and Content
The Chattahoochee Brick Company documents contain business records that show the daily operation of the company through its financial, production, legal, and management operations. Most papers date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Financial documents include cash journals, reports, record books, accounts, and ledgers. Production documents include inventories, reports, and a catalogue. Legal materials include land grands, deeds, and indentures that relate to land...
Dates:
1821-1941, undated
Tucker Family Bills and Correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS205
Scope and Content
The majority of this collection includes monthly invoices, bills and other financial transactions initiated by Sarah Tucker after the death of her husband, Henry Holcombe Tucker. Almost all of the transactions involved businesses in downtown Atlanta. The collection provides insight into the lifestyle and monthly financial responsibilities of a wealthy widow in Atlanta during the 1890s. Included among Ms. Tucker’s purchases are groceries, dry goods, building supplies, labor, utility bills,...
Dates:
1877-1899, undated
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
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- Convict labor -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- African American prisoners -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Brickmaking -- Georgia 1
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton manufacture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton textile industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton trade -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Dry-goods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Employee eating facilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Freedmen -- Georgia 1
- Industry -- Georgia 1
- Insurance policies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Manufacturing industries -- Georgia -- Employees 1
- Plumbers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Prisoners -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Public utilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Stores, Retail -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Textile workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Widows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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