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Perry Knitting Company in the sewing room, prior to the new lighting.

An advertisement for matching set pajamas for presumably for boys.

This picture is an advertisement of an overall dress over a long sleeve shirt and tights.

Print of the Perry Knitting Company with the earlier power house from the Walnut Street Bridge. Power houses were later shut down when the company started buying electricity.

The Rice Collection annotation tells us that "For a time, the Champion plant utilized the defunct Perry Knitting Company. This print is of the Perry Knitting Company before all the buildings were destroyed and show the street bridges." This…

An image of machinery at the factory including wheels and pulleys and pipes.

This is a picture of the Perry Knitting Mill on fire in 1978. The fire is in the center of the photograph and the smoke engulfs the entire page.

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…

An inscription on this photograph reads: "1st Standpipe for gravity feed of the public water system, near present water tower." It appears that it was constructed in 1936 by the Public Works Administration (PWA) as part of the New Deal economic…