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"Mrs. Whitener Recalls Beginning of Bedspread Industry"

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Made by: Catherine Evans Whitener
Date: 11 March 1937
Publisher: The Dalton News (Dalton, Georgia), pp. 1ff.
Themes: Chenille & candlewick, Machine tufting & Dalton

Cited in chapter 4, note 3

Cite this source

Catherine Evans Whitener. “‘Mrs. Whitener Recalls Beginning of Bedspread Industry’.” The Dalton News (Dalton, Georgia), pp. 1ff., 11 March 1937.

Research notes

Catherine Evans Whitener's own account of making the first tufted spread (1895) and selling it (1900): the founding story first-hand, 40 years on. Access: not online as far as checked (Oct 2026). Dalton newspapers on microfilm: try the Dalton-Whitfield public library and Crown Gardens & Archives, Dalton (named in Deaton's bibliography for another Dalton News article). Cited in Deaton, Bedspreads to Broadloom (1993), bibliography pp. 209–217 (transcribed in research/deaton-sources.md).