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Crown Cotton Mills [Dalton, Georgia] Oral History Tapes
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-023
Abstract
The collection contains oral history tapes of employees at the Crown Cotton Mills in Dalton, a textile town in the Appalachian Valley of northwest Georgia. Most of mill hands interviewed worked for Crown from the 1920s through 1960s.
Dates:
1984 - 1985
Fries Textile Plant Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-039
Abstract
The Fries Textile Plant Records includes correspondence, production data, personnel ledgers, photographs, legal and financial materials, internal reports, blueprints, and other administrative materials. The collection provides a complete history of the company's operations, from its founding at the turn of the twentieth century until its closure in the 1980s.
Dates:
1900 - 1988
Nat Goldman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-054
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondance of Nat Goldman, an auditor for the Textile Workers Union of America CIO. His letters from 1946 through 1949 are addressed to his girlfiend Rebecca "Reba" Baron in New York City, New York, including love letters to her and descriptions of his travels and work for the union. He writes about the innerworkings of locations and dissenment within the union. Most of the letters are from Virginia, but there are a few from his travels to Tennessee,...
Dates:
1946 - 1949