According to the Rice Collection annotation, this is "Perry Knitting Mill from an early plate, 1880." That pre-dates the operation, but it does seem as though we're looking at the original Mill #1 building at an early date, prior to construction of…
According to the Rice Collection annotation, "The Mill sponsored a bowling team and these six individuals went to the 28th Annual New York State Championship Tournament, held in Niagara Falls in 1961." <br />
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Pictured from left to right are: Melanie…
By this time, Champion must have been utilizing the building. Clark did these prints for the Champion Company going to Rochester, Livonia, Geneseo and the Perry plant.
The Rice Collection annotation describes this as "Part of the spinning process at the Perry Knitting Company," where we see four visitors pause to look while a factory worker stands by.
What appears to be a mill worker poses with a woman wearing a name tag and corsage. Given other photos in this sequence she may be a teacher at Perry Central School, who were given special tours along with the children. <br />
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The Rice Collection…
The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Vernon Saunders and Howard Sanford look over another procedure during the P.K. Open House..." The two men were teachers at the Perry Central School.
The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Mrs. Charles Torrey, a teacher at Perry Elementary School, looks over part of the process during the Perry Knitting Mill Open House in 1954."<br />
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It appears that the machines are sanders of some kind. Mrs. Torrey…
The Rice Collection annotation describes this scene as "One of the supervisors showing the cotton knitting machine that was used to make the cloth for the Nitey Nite p.j.s."<br />
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Cotton yarn in barrels suggest the scale of the company's operation. The…
Soda pops in hand, a group of students appear to be engrossed in some sort of game or attraction designed for them. As the Perry Herald explained,
“Schools of the area have been invited to visit the plant in groups and the Perry schools have…