[Business records]. 1942-1980.

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[Business records]. 1942-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51013623

Contains correspondence and invoices, 1950's and 1960's, to Tilton and Lone Star; sales documents, 1942-1980; purchase orders, 1954-1971; general correspondence, 1957-1979; and correspondence, 1963-1964, about pieces of cotton legislation, and 1971-1975, about federal funding for cotton, much of it from various members of Congress. Also includes copies of contracts, 1952-1977, including those from the Armed Services Textile and Apparel Procurement Agency, the U.S. Navy, and Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills of Atlanta, manufacturers of bags, burlaps, tents and tarpaulins. Many contracts, orders, etc., are from foreign countries. Also contains a copy of a court document, 1976, from a suit brought by Tilton against Podar Brothers, Bombay, India, for failure to supply cloth to Tilton's standards, and for a lawsuit with Elite Textile Mills, Karachi, Pakistan. Also includes a copy of a report done by DuPont, Clifton, N.J., for Northern Dyeing Co., Washington, N.J., on a test run for a raincoat fabric; the report includes cloth samples (swatches).

3 boxes ; 27 x 13 x 32 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7634740

American Textile History Museum Library

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