| Collection Name: |
Crown Cotton Mills, Dalton, Georgia Oral History Tapes |
| Repository Name: |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Archives [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States |
| Local Identifier: |
Ms88-023 |
| Dates Spanned: |
1984-1985 |
| Description: |
ORAL HISTORY TAPES, 1984-85. 19 tapes. 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-1960s. All interviews conducted by J. Douglas Flamming, formerly a history professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in 1984-85. Unprocessed. Restricted access. Ms88-023. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
19 |
| Broad Subjects: |
Industry and Labor; Economics |
| ASP Subjects: |
Cotton gins and ginning; Dalton, GA; Factories; Georgia; Industrial safety; Mills and mill-work; Oral history; United States; Work; Work environment |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0002935 |
