![[Photograph of a modern tufting plant, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, 1951]](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/dlg/vang/dlg_vang_wtf152.jpg)
[Photograph of a modern tufting plant, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, 1951]
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- Date
- 1951
- Place
- 418 South Glenwood Avenue, Dalton, Georgia
- Held by
- Georgia Archives
- Collection
- Vanishing Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Number
- Vanishing Georgia wtf152
- Size
- photograph
- Themes
- Machine tufting & Dalton
Cite this source
“[Photograph of a modern tufting plant, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, 1951],” 1951. Vanishing Georgia wtf152, Vanishing Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia), Georgia Archives. dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_wtf152.
Research notes
Photograph. DLG description: "Dalton, 1951. Modern tufting plant built ca. 1950 and located at 418 South Glenwood Avenue." (Plant name not given.) Why it matters: Building the machine / Dalton: a dated exterior of a purpose-built tufting mill of c. 1950, the years the first broadloom-width machines arrived. Company could be identified from the address in the 1951 Dalton city directory (also on DLG). Found: Digital Library of Georgia, search "tufted", 2026-10-28.