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Testimonial Farewell Party
According to a typed label on its reverse side, this photograph shows an event celebrating the departure or retirement of Vern E. Reichard (a Perry Knitting Co. manager) and Mark Stowell (a superintendent). An overlay on the reverse identifies all…
Cutting Room at Perry Knitting Co.
Roughly thirty people, men and women, pictured by machinery in the cutting room. There are piles of white fabric and some sort of pulley apparatus on the ceiling. Storage shelves in the back of the picture are also filled with bolts of fabric.
Outside of Perry Knitting Co., Collarette machine
Uppermost image shows the outside of the Perry Knitting Co., and groups of workers: men walk together, women walk in a procession carrying umbrellas. In the corner of the picture, there is part of a horse drawn carriage or buggy of sorts. Electrical…
Cutters of the P.K. Co.
This striking photograph captures a moment in time when cutting textile patterns was in transformation from a skilled to a semi-skilled operation. Given all of machinery at the Perry Knitting Co., perhaps there's a statement being made via the pile…
Perry Knitting Co. seen from an aerial view. Showing the entirety of the mill.
Aerial print of the Perry Knitting Company without any of the airbrushing the other prints of a similar nature contain. Taken around 1949.
CIO Broadside
Probably circulated during an unsuccessful unionizing drive at the Perry Knitting Co. in 1937, this flyer is addressed not only to employees but the larger Perry community. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee ask, rhetorically, why the Perry…
Perry Knitting Co. Power Plant and Mills from Walnut St. Bridge.
A print of the Perry Knitting Company, taken about 1910, showing the power plant and the mills.<br />
CIO Handbill
This single-side document probably dates to a 1937 effort to unionize the Perry Knitting Co. employees. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee met considerable resistance from company management and some employees, who staged a "Loyalty Parade"…
Perry Knitting Mills and Co. Advertisement Photo.
The Perry Knitting Company provided some of the prints of the mill to advertise for workers and also for their product. The company made long underwear, for both men and women, and garments for the military. Following World War II they began to…
Perry Knitting Co. Fillmore NY Mill Location
This print shows the Perry Knitting Company mill that was located in Fillmore. The picture was taken about 1950.<br />