The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Honors College celebrated exceptional student success as two Honors students earned national recognition at the National Collegiate Honors Council conference. Graduate Vio Midgett, a Brock Scholar with degrees in history and international studies, was named a Portz Scholar, one of only four undergraduate researchers nationwide selected for this prestigious…
Digitizing United Hosiery Mills: UTC Students Help To Preserve Chattanooga Industry
Students at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) are digitizing archival records of the local textile firm United Hosiery Mills, thanks to a $1,900 state grant from the Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board. The collection, which charts the company’s founding in 1904 and its pioneering use of the comic-character Buster Brown for marketing children’s clothing,…
UTC will digitize United Hosiery “Buster Brown” character
UTC has received a $1,900 state grant to help preserve Chattanooga’s industrial history by digitizing materials from United Hosiery Mills. Founded by the Miller Brothers, the company operated nearly a century and was among the first to license the “Buster Brown” character to market children’s clothing. UTC students are preparing the records for preservation, and…