Textile industry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
An Introduction to Cotton Manufacturing in Clarke County, Georgia exhibit, ca. 1981
Series — Box 3: Series MSS 016.009; Series MSS 016.027 [Barcode: 31001005172680], Folder: 13-15, 36-37
Collection number: MSS 016.009
Overview
This collection contains materials that apparently accompanied an exhibit about the history of cotton manufacturing in Clarke County, Georgia.
Dates:
ca. 1981
Thomas Textile Company collection
Collection
Collection number: MSS-013
Overview
Clothing samples, advertisements, photographs, and other documents pertaining to the Thomas Textile Company, which operated in Whitehall, Georgia, for more than 50 years.
Dates:
1953-1991
Perdue Manufacturing Company records
Collection
Collection number: MSS-035
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...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1980; 1940-1992
Michael Gagnon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-088
Overview
Research files for Gagnon’s articles about Georgia railroads and for his book, Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870, and documentation of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company microfilming project.
Dates:
1990
Puryear Family collection, 1850-1965
Series — Box 3: Series MSS 016.009; Series MSS 016.027 [Barcode: 31001005172680], Folder: 29, 39
Collection number: MSS 016.027
Overview
Materials pertaining to the Puryear family, owners of the Puryear's Mill that was located on Cedar Creek.
Dates:
1850-1965
Whitehall photograph collection, 1910-1920
Series — Box 6: Series MSS016.023; Series MSS 016.024; Series MSS 016.025; Series MSS 016.026; Series MSS 016.028; Series MSS 016.029; Series MSS 016.030; Series MSS 016.031; Series MSS 016.032; Series MSS 016.033; Series MSS 016.034; Series MSS 016.035 [Barcode: 31001005172722], Folder: 32
Collection number: MSS 016.030
Overview
Three photographs from Whitehall, Georgia around the 1910s and 1920s.
Dates:
1910-1920