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Textile workers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variant(s): Textile industry --Employees

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

Wayne L. Dernoncourt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-025
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Textile Workers Union of America vice president Wayne Dernoncourt, including circular letters, printed materials, memorabilia, and photographs.

Dates: 1950 - 1980

Fries Textile Mill Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-045
Scope and Content

This collection consists of oral history interviews with Fries, Va. locals that either previously worked in the textile mill or grew up around it. Interviews were conducted by Bess Pittman and Kevin Combs.

Dates: 2019 - 2022

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