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Sims Textile Company map of Dalton

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Made by: Sims Textile Company
Date: c. 1946
Held by: Dalton-Whitfield County Historical Society (per Deaton)
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Chenille & candlewick

Cited in chapter 4, note 23

Cite this source

Sims Textile Company. “Sims Textile Company map of Dalton,” c. 1946. Dalton-Whitfield County Historical Society (per Deaton).

Research notes

A map of Dalton issued by Sims Textile, reproduced or cited by Deaton "courtesy of Dalton-Whitfield County Historical Society". Likely shows the bedspread businesses at their peak, and ties in with the Sims sheets at the Bandy Heritage Center (own-bandy-sims-chenille-center). Cited in Deaton, Bedspreads to Broadloom (1993), bibliography pp. 209–217 (transcribed in research/deaton-sources.md).