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This collection of business records contains ledgers and correspondence regarding local industry in Chattanooga, Tennessee from from 1875 to 1970. Thhis collection includes a photographs album containing images and descriptions of equipment and machinery used by the Chattanooga Gas Company in in 1919.

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs and negatives regarding textile processing facilities primarily in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1922 to 1976. Images document factory work, particularly Dixie Mercerizing Company’s facilities for processing cotton into mercerized yarn. One item in the collection depicts a product display from Standard Coosa Thatcher Company, another textile manufacturer in Chattanooga. Most images are black and white, with one color photograph. The collection includes a...

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This series contains records pertaining to the Industrial Research Institute, from 1945 to 1965.

Scope and Contents The Wheland Foundry and United States Pipe and Foundry Company photographs collection contains images, product models, and the draft of an employee booklet, "Wheland Facts for Wheland People." Materials are related to foundries in Chattanooga, Tennessee, between 1875 and 1972, primarily documenting activity in the 1950s. The majority of the content documents daily operations and personnel in the mid-twentieth century at Wheland Foundry with images of employees, the factory floor, and...

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This file contains correspondence and an accompanying leaflet regarding the potential sale of a Heavy Gang Edger manufactured by Wheland Machine Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The correspondence is dated 1905 October 7.