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Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled…

Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled…

Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled…

Part of the flyer advertising for the Perry Knitting Company Open House in 1953

The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Leah White looks over the flamingoes used to advertise the Nitey Nites in store windows. These flamingoes were being housed at the Mill in 1954." This date is probably in correct; although no such event was…

A two-story fly-over walkway bridges Water Street and connects Mill No. 1 and Mill No. 5. Annotations from the late 1940s or early '50s tell a story about the open door, seen to the left. At that door, factory 'seconds', or slightly defective…

The Ford Garage was owned by Fred Watkins and Frank McKurth. The partners first operated a grocery store at 100 Main St. and secured a Ford dealership there in 1912. The business must have been successful, for the building pictured here at #22-24…

Samuel Ferrara, Leslie Fenn, Russell Shaughnessy, and Robert Courch pose for a photo at the Perry Knitting Company. A picture of the Mill hangs on the wall behind them. All have "suggested changes in production control and materials handling and have…

This photo contains the men and women of The Perry Knitting Mill.

Letter to Local Board #571 of the Selective Service System shows the President of Perry Knitting Co. attempting to secure as many deferments for his (male) employees as possible. In this case, he argues that women in the Cutting Room lack the…