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Inside the Biblio-Tech Cafe.
Biblio-Tech Cafe.
Inspecting Garments at a Perry Knitting Co. Open House
According to the Rice Collection annotation, "Clifford Rice and three others inspect the garments made in the Knitting Mill during the Mill Open House in 1954."<br />
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This date is probably wrong; there wasn't an open house in 1954, but there was on May…
Inspection Department, Perry Knitting Co.
A postcard in poor condition yields a rare look at the final stage of manufacturing undergarments. Located in Mill #4, finished goods were first inspected, then ironed and packaged for delivery worldwide. The image has been lightly edited to minimize…
Interior of the Mill
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 />
Junk at the Mill
The Clark Rice Photography Annotation states "8 prints of the Perry Knitting Co. Mill site, probably about 1990." Part of The Perry Knitting Co. site that has broken, old cars and scrapings of wood and miscellaneous objects.
Knitting Room, 1893
An inscription on the front identifies a location for this murky photograph; a somewhat later annotation on the reverse draws attention to "knitting machines" instead.
Leon Brooks Giving an Award at The Perry Knitting Company
Leon Brooks giving an award at the Perry Knitting Company. Leon was the editor of the Perry Knitting Company News and the director of personnel and safety.
Library Interior
The inside walls of the Perry Public Library
Lunch Room at Perry Knitting Co.
The annotation reads: "Lunch room at the Perry Knitting Company, shows personnel eating, Victoria [sic] on the left side of print with piano. Also shows American Flag and buffet line, about 1919." It appears there is some discomfort in being…
Machinery responsible for dying yarn and material prior to independent Manufacturing by Perry Knitting Co.
Picture showing one of the many machines that I could have been used in dying the yarn prior to the material being manufactured by the Perry Knitting Company.<br />