Oral history interview with Debbie Holden, 1996 Oct. 22 / conducted by Tammy R. Caldwell.

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Oral history interview with Debbie Holden, 1996 Oct. 22 / conducted by Tammy R. Caldwell.

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Debbie Holden talks about her work in the Eagle and Phenix, Bibb, and Fieldcrest Mills, including job tasks, getting a job, training, overtime, wages, working conditions, safety issues and equipment, OSHA investigations of dust and cotton levels, brown lung, mill doctors, her health problems as a result of breathing in the dust, and family members and friends who also suffered from brown lung.

Typescript: [8] leaves, bound ; 29 cm.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette : analog.

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Holden, Debbie,

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Debbie Holden grew up in Phenix City, Ala. and worked at the Eagle and Phenix Mill and other Columbus, Ga. area mills as a weaver for 18 years. She began working in the mill at age 17. From the description of Oral history interview with Debbie Holden, 1996 Oct. 22 / conducted by Tammy R. Caldwell. (Columbus State University). WorldCat record id: 74282323 ...

Caldwell, Tammy R.,

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Bibb Manufacturing Company

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Fieldcrest Mills Inc.

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Fieldcrest Mills was a Marshall Fields Company that produced an assortment of textiles including blankets, bedspreads, towels, bed sheets, bath accessories, bath rugs, rugs and furniture coverings; their warehouses were located in Draper, Leaksville and Spray, North Carolina. These three towns combined in 1967 to become Eden, North Carolina. The company changed in 1986 when Fieldcrest Mills merged with Cannon Mills of Kannapolis, North Carolina, becoming Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc. Then in 1997 the ...

Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ga.)

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