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This photo is a street view of the Perry Knitting Company. According to the Rice Collection annotation, this picture was taken around 1960 and shows streets and cars along Hope St. Two people walk alongside the street.

These two similar photographs were shot for the Nitey-Night pajama company product catalog. It's not clear whether the photographs ever were used. The child on the left posing in the photo is identified as Regina Ireland, wearing a pair of footie…

A shot of a young child modeling, photographed on spec for the company's product catalog. According to Clark Rice, "We did not do a lot of their catalog work. The P.K. had a photographer and an agency woman located in New York City who oversaw all…

This image is of a young Perry resident photographed by Clark Rice for prospective use in a Nitey Nite catalog. Children were given copies of the prints and were also given the pajamas they were wearing.

Pictured are officers and foremen attending the first of what was intended to be an annual banquet celebrating PKC&#039;s successful operation. We know there was an even more lavish event in 1912; after that, documentation is scarce.<br /> <br /> In addition to the…

The second annual gathering of this type, company managers and foreman celebrate business success and amity. A program printed for the occasion offers some of the main themes, each followed by a toast: Management - Prosperity of Perry - Harmony of…

Original print of the spinning room in the Perry Knitting Co. with Karl Sharpsteen as foreman, dated May 7, 1906.

A man and woman pose in front Decker’s Ice Cream. There are advertisements in the windows for products and foods.

Probably ready for the day in the sewing room at the Perry Knitting Company. Piles of cloth are waiting to be sewn by the women in the background of the picture.

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;On June 8, 1937 the closest that the Perry Knitting Mill came in a brush with the unions who were organizing. Their organizing was dispensed when suddenly a group of farmers (?) with pitchforks appeared and…