Charles C. Tiller Photographs
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
2.00 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
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.
- 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
- Author
- M. Tedesco and T. Fisher
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
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Johnson City TN 37614 USA
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