- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of general office staff of LeTourneau Co. of Georgia, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia, ca. 1950-1953?]
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1953
- Subject:
- LeTourneau University
Machinery industry--Georgia--Toccoa
Business--Georgia--Toccoa - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa, 34.57732, -83.33239
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Toccoa, early 1950s. General Offices of the R.J. [i.e., R.G.] LeTourneau Co., the developer of giant earthmoving equipment. This business has become worldwide.
2003/07/23: R.G. LeTourneau is generally acknowledged as the innovator of the modern mechanized earthmoving industry. Mr. LeTourneau was also a highly religious man, and he invested millions of dollars in missionary development projects in Liberia, West Africa, and Peru. For over thirty years he traveled in and out of the United States, speaking about his Christian faith, always beginning with: "Friends, I'm just a sinner saved by grace. Just a mechanic that the Lord has blessed." LeTourneau and his wife Evelyn founded LeTourneau University, a Christian college in Longview, Texas.
R.G. LeTourneau began his career in Stockton, California with the creation of the first electric controlled scraper. Some time after the late 1920s, the LeTourneau Company expanded, employing some 5,000 people in five factories. The outbreak of World War II in Europe and the expansion of military facilities (in the States and abroad) stimulated the LeTourneau's growth. Supplying 70% of the dozer blades, scrapers, Tournapulls, and rooter plows used by military engineers, the Company remained the largest producer of earth-moving equipment during WWII. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_stp002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:stp002
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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