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Johnson City Shale Brick Corporation

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

General Shale Products Corporation Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0307
Arrangement

The ledger and ledger sheets are arranged first alphabetically by company name and then chronologically by the first date of each folder's date span.

Dates: 1909-1986

Burr Harrison Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0064
Scope and Contents The Burr Harrison Photographs consist of 380 photographic images (prints and negatives) depicting Johnson City and environs circa 1881-1958. The collection represents only a portion of Harrison's work, as much of it did not survive. The collection centers on photographs of commercial buildings in downtown Johnson City; industries, residences, apartment houses and churches in the city; buildings and activities at Mountain Home; and buildings at East Tennessee State Normal School (ETSNS). Some...
Dates: 1881-1958

George C. Sells Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0400
Scope and Contents The George C. Sells Papers contain general histories of the General Shale Products Corporation, a memorandum written by a company official, histories of two companies acquired by General Shale (the Locher Brick Company of Glasgow, Virginia, and the Chattahoochee Brick Company of Georgia), a speech by Douglas Whitlock presented at a brick industry meeting in 1962, a reprint of a magazine article about General Shale, and a master's thesis on the use of convict labor at the Chattahoochee Brick...
Dates: 1962-1991

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Brick trade 2
Industries -- Tennessee -- Kingsport 2
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (Greenville, Tenn.) 1
Architecture 1
Baseball -- Tennessee -- Johnson City 1