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The four photographs here partially document a tense confrontation, during 1937, between the Perry Knitting Co. management and the Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Like any other factory, worker…

Ice cutting on Silver Lake. I believe this was taken by Clark about 1935.

Ice sign that showed what the customer would like to have delivered. The blocks were charged at a different rate. This folder contains an article and other prints of the natural ice crop.

The Perry Knitting Company occupied three sites at their zenith. One in Mt. Morris, one in Fillmore and the main plant in Perry. The Mt. Morris plant closed in 1969 and Clark took these prints of the interior for the Mill. <br />

The Perry Knitting Co. provided clothing and under for the US military during World Wars I and II. Those contributions had earned the factory special exemptions (on electricity rationing, for example) and draft deferments for many employees due to…

This early photograph of the Perry Knitting Co. is roughly contemporary to another OpenValley document, although here the absence of tree leaves allows for clearer viewing of Mill #1. In the foreground are the PKC's dam and water wheel. The…

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

Working in the washing room of the Perry Knitting Company, probably about 1950.

From the Rice Collection annotations: &quot;One of the superintendents of the Perry Knitting Company, but I am not sure who he was.&quot;

Perry Knitting Company when the new lighting was put into position