Charles C. Tiller Photographs

Collection — other: In Boxe 1-2

Identifier: AppMs-0106

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Charles C. Tiller Photographs Digital Collection

Scope and Contents

The collection depicts Ritter Lumber Company operations, its camps, and company town life. Series 1 includes 84, medium format negative duplicates and 46, 35mm slides (products of photographing the original prints). Series 2 features 84, 5 x 7 black and white prints.

Locations for camps are as follows:

Frying Pan Camp: Dickenson County, Va., along Frying Pan Creek. Moved to: Russell Fork River, near the mouth of Tilda Anderson Branch. Moved again in 1935 to Stratton, on waters of McClure River. (Served McClure Mill).

Caney Creek Camp: Dickenson County, Va., on Caney Creek, a tributary of McClure River near McClure, Va. (Served McClure Mill).

Lick Creek Camp: Dickenson County, Va., on Lick Creek, Russell Fork River near McClure, Va. (Served McClure Mill).

Big Branch Camp: Dickenson County, Va., around Clintwood on the waters of the Cranesnest and Pound Rivers and tributary streams. (Served Fremont Hill).

Sandlick Camp: Dickenson County, Va., Lick Creek, Russell Fork River, near McClure, Va. (Served McClure Mill).

Dog Branch Camp: Dickenson County, Va., Dog Branch , near Lick Creek, Russell Fork Rivers. Camp near Big Branch Camp. (Probably served Fremont Mill).

Dates

1924-1940

Creator

Tiller, Charles C. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

2.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection has two series.

Method of Acquisition

The Charles C. Tiller Photographs were donated by Charles C. Tiller, Kingsport, Tennessee, on May 29, 1981.

Processing Information

M. Tedesco and T. Fisher completed processing, and opened for research in 1989.

Subjects

Company stores -- Virginia Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Locomotives Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Logging Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Logging railroads Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Logging--Machinery Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Lumber camps--Virginia--Dickenson County Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Negatives (photographic) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Railroads Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Railroads, Narrow-gage Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Shay locomotive Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Slides (photographs) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
W.M. Ritter Lumber Company