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Thornton Family Companies. Sugar Industry Collection, 1933-2013

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0545

Scope and Contents

This collection contains sugar industry materials from the Thornton Family Companies. These include endorsement letters regarding machinery invention, photographs, publications and machinery blueprints and sketches.

Lyman E. “Butch” Thornton, former operator of the business, donated the collection.

Dates

  • 1933-2013

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The Thornton Grab and Derrick Works was founded by John Adelbert Thornton in 1898 in McDonoghville. The company built sugar cane storage derricks, with Thornton designing the equipment himself. After the Great Depression, operations moved to Jeanerette, where it is now under Jeanerette Sugar Co-Operative.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 foot of materials in 1 box and 1 oversize folder)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Thornton Family Companies Sugar Industry Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Zack Stein
Date
02/22/2023
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Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031