Overview This collection collects the records and other files of the Perdue Manufacturing Company, also known as the Perry Brothers Manufacturing company, over the course of their time in business which spans roughly 1940 to 1992. The collection contains business receipts and other pieces of correspondence detailing the sale of items to purchasing companies like Sears and Roebuck, JC Penney, and McRaes. The collection contains two series; the first is filed alphabetically, retaining the order of the...

Overview

The Tanner Lumber Company was an Athens-based company that sold builders’ and artists’ materials until 1996. The collection includes documents and ephemera belonging to the company, as well as miscellaneous materials from two other local businesses, the Dozier Company and Athens Market Inc. Also included in the collection are family records of the company’s president, J.B. Tanner.