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Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills digital collection

Photographs and records from 1907 to 1989 of the Atlanta-based Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill.

More About This Collection

Creator
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills

Publisher
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology., Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Photograph Collection, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Date of Original
1907/1989

Subject
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Archives
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Management
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Photographs
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915--History--Sources
Child labor--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile factories--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile factories--Equipment and supplies
Textile workers--Health and hygiene--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Religious life--Georgia--Atlanta
Union busting--Georgia--Atlanta

Location
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Cabbagetown, 33.748162, -84.3665927

Medium
administrative records
correspondence
drawings (visual works)
letters (correspondence)
memorandums
photographs
records (documents)
reports
testimonies
texts (document genres)
visual works

Type
Still Image, Text

Description
The digital collection consists of scans of selected materials from the Georgia Institute of Technology's Archives' Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Records and the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Photograph Collection. The selected digitized documents include over 300 noteworthy letters, photographs, memos, drawings, reports, and testimonies and document the business activities and concerns of management and workers in the Atlanta mill during the early twentieth century. Materials relating to the 1914-1915 strike in Atlanta include the correspondence of Oscar Elsas, transcripts of testimonies given before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, and a group of operative reports. Correspondence and operative reports also provide some documentation of union activities and working conditions at other Fulton Bag mills, including those in St. Louis, Brooklyn, Dallas, and New Orleans., The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Exhibit is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center's Archives and Records Management, Digital Initiatives, and Systems departments.

Metadata URL
http://www.library.gatech.edu/fulton_bag/

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department

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