This collection covers the years 1948 to 1978, concentrating on the period 1939-1969. The material is particularly rich in committee information, the southern textile indutry, annual meetings, the condition of Alabama industry, southern labor, child labor, right to work, public relation programs, correspondence with founders and leaders of the Association, foreign imports, textile safety, and World War II. Of particualr interest are the files on labor unions, child labor, right to work laws, and civil rights. Special programs on cotton imporvement, Maid of Cotton, public relations, and textile safety are important in the development of the Association. General letters also document the concerns of the Alabama textile industry, as do files on foreign imports, Taft-Harley Act, and the Walsh-Healey Act. Much of the development of the Association is documented in the yearbooks, of which the Alabama Department of History Archives has a complete set. The history of the textile industry in Alabama from 1809 to 1950 was written by the Association and this collection contains two copies: one in the 1949 yearbook and one bound copy. A most interesting piece is a stock certificate from an early textile mill in Alabama (1848). This collection has been arranged alphabetically by topic. The folders have not been numbered to allow for future additions. The photgraphs have not been arranged for this reason. Minuted of the ATMA executive board, a photgraph collection, and a series of newspaper clippings on member mills are still in the possession of the Association.