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Digitizing Pieces Of Chattanooga’s Labor And Industrial Past

WUTC

Published April 17, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT

Two workers using machines in a factory to pour liquid into casts, likely at Wheland Foundry in Chattanooga.

After the Civil War, new factories - from textile mills to iron fabricators - were built here in Chattanooga.

They powered the city’s reputation as an industrial center in the South, known as the “Dynamo of Dixie.”

This semester on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a grant-funded project has been digitizing photos, documents and other materials from that era of labor and industry in this city.

Carolyn Runyon is Director of Special Collections at UTC, where Erin Ryan is a processing archivist - and Jane Dodge is the student assistant on the project.