Textile workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on modern textile workers in factories. Works on hand-loom weavers, including the medieval guild artisans, are entered under Weavers.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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)