Materials about S.M. Whitney Co, Inc., a cotton seller founded in Augusta, Georgia in 1868. It closed down in September of 2010. Most documents fall in the 1950-1995 date range, the company then under the management of Barry Whitney, a descendent of cotton gin inventor, Eli Whitney. There are also records from other Augusta businesses, including the Georgia Railroad and Banking Co., Cotton Exhange of Augusta, J.G. Jackson & Co, Feedright Milling Co., and Trustees of the Augusta Free School.