Industries -- Tennessee -- Kingsport
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 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
Kingsport Press Strike Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0152
Scope and Contents
The Kingsport Press Strike Collection contains correspondence, reports, pamphlets, photocopies of articles taken from commercial publications, newspaper clippings, speeches, cassette audiotapes, memorabilia, and broadsides documenting the events surrounding the strike between Kingsport Press and its unions between 1961 and 1967. The correspondence and speeches describe events leading up to the strike, chronicles union activities during the strike, and identifies the problems surrounding the...
Dates:
1961-1982
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
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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George C. Sells Papers
Walter F. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0119
Scope and Contents
The Walter F. Smith Papers contain agreements, meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, news clippings, and memorabilia reflecting Mr. Smith's studies at Knox College, early career and activities during World War I, civic activities in Kingsport, and career with Kingsport Press, Inc. Most of the papers were created by Mr. Smith and his interaction with his business associates. Some material concerning his wife Isla and his children, George and Charlotte, are included in the...
Dates:
1842-1976; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1960
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Walter F. Smith Papers
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