Thornton Family Companies. Sugar Industry Collection, 1933-2013
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
- Thornton Family Companies (Organization)
- Thornton, Lyman E. “Butch” (Person)
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
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu