Title: C. M. McClung & Co. Records

Date/Date Range :   1929-1941

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection houses receipts and letters from the C. M. McClung & Co. hardware company, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, recording sales to Frank William Taylor of Morristown, Tennessee made between 1929 and 1941.

Call number: MS-3137

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was purchased by Special Collections on March 20, 2007.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], C. M. McClung & Co. Records, MS-3137. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder

C. M. McClung & Co. was a wholesale and mail-order supplier of hardware, stoves, and other goods, located on Jackson Avenue in downtown Knoxville. The company dates back to 1820 when James Cowan started a general store on Gay Street. In 1859 this enterprise became the firm of Cowan, McClung, & Co. In 1884, Calvin Morgan McClung bought the business's wholesale hardware division, which he named after himself. The first Jackson Avenue warehouses were built in 1893. The company went out of business in 1971. Despite plans to turn the warehouses into residential lofts, several of the warehouses were destroyed by fire in 2007.

This collection houses receipts and letters from the C. M. McClung & Co. hardware company, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, recording sales to Frank William Taylor of Morristown, Tennessee made between 1929 and 1941.

• Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History.
• Morristown (Tenn.) -- History.
• Wholesale trade -- Tennessee -- Knoxville.
• Hardware stores -- Tennessee.