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Factories -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Guy documents of Arrow Company

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS755f
Scope and Content

This collection primarily contains material related to Andrew Guy's employment at Arrow Company in Atlanta. Items include correspondence, certificates, programs, pamphlets, and the by-laws of the "Twenty Five Year and Retiree Club." Content includes informaton about company operations and history as well as retiree relations.

Dates: 1963-2001, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Andrew Guy documents of Arrow Company

Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS443
Scope and Contents This collection contains images, historic property surveys, and maps which depict Atlanta and its neighborhoods. AUDC generated these materials, gathered by trained volunteers and unidentified photographers, to document and study the neighborhoods and important structures to gauge their historic significance. Materials depict residences, commercial buildings, streetscapes, religious structures, schools, cemeteries, industrial sites, parks, and government buildings. Also included are city...
Dates: 1912-2005, undated (bulk 1973-1995)
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials

Charles Watts Broom Factory ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS323
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a single ledger. Although mostly undated, a few pages are dated 1888, 1889 and 1891. The ledger contains information pertaining to customers accounts from all over Georgia and deposits for the company.

Dates: 1888-1891, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Charles Watts Broom Factory ledger

H.J. Carr & Co. photographs and postcard

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS3
Scope and Content

This collection contains photos of commercial buildings, including hotels, office buildings, parking garages, a theatre, manufacturing buildings, a YMCA, educational facilities and railroad facilities. The architects involved on these construction projects include G. Lloyd Preacher, Ivey & Crook, and Neel Reid. Photographers include Edgar Orr, Rogers & Farmer, Fishbaugh & Lee, Francis E. Price, and Reeves Studio.

Dates: 1909-1932, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / H.J. Carr & Co. photographs and postcard

Ross Ingram Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS165
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains snapshots of various neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia as well as portraits of members of the Weaver and Drake families as well as some of their extended families. Most of the snapshots of Atlanta were taken in the 1960s, but the family portraits are from an earlier period, and were evidently purchased by Mr. Ingram. The neighborhoods included in this collection are Ansley Park, Buttermilk Bottoms, Grant Park, Inman Park, Lower Midtown, Pittsburgh, and West End. The...
Dates: circa 1885-1969, undated, bulk 1964-1969
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Ross Ingram Photographs

Scripto Pen Company photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS204
Scope and Content This collection features photographs of the Scripto Pen Company plant and offices in Atlanta. The images document various operations, including drafting, machinery use, and assembly line work being carried out by staff. The collection also includes a photograph of the Scripto Pen Company building exterior and group portraits of personnel. Of particular note is an awards ceremony in which President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) presents Scripo executives with the Presidents "E" Award, an award...
Dates: approximately 1924-1968, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Scripto Pen Company photographs

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)
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Whittier Cotton Mills records