Scope and Content Note The records from the Alester G. Furman Company consist of files documenting the sale of real estate, primarily residential housing, by textile manufacturing companies during 1945-1970. The Furman Company served as the broker for the sale of real estate which, with respect to the residential housing, in most cases was sold to the mill workers. Furman handled the loan applications, insurance, and all other matters related to the sale. The textile manufacturers involved in these sales had their...

Scope and Content Note The M. Lowenstein Records consist of material documenting three South Carolina textile mills which Lowenstein owned for at least a portion of the time they were operating. There is one issue of a Rock Hill newspaper for 1949 celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Plant along with two 1956 issues of the Textile Workers Union of America newsletter, Textile Labor , related to a strike at that plant.Material...

Scope and Contents As a graduate student working in the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections, Mr. McKown collected these photographs while creating an exhibit, mounted in the Robert M. Cooper Library, in 1988. Textile manufacturing operations at Orr, Newry, Piedmont Manufacturing, Equinox, Gluck, Pelzer Cotton Mill, Chiquola, Abney, and Appleton are featured. Common scenes depicted include picnics, aerial shots, team sports, mill building exteriors, mill workers (operatives, executives, and...