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Testimonial Farewell Party
According to a typed label on its reverse side, this photograph shows an event celebrating the departure or retirement of Vern E. Reichard (a Perry Knitting Co. manager) and Mark Stowell (a superintendent). An overlay on the reverse identifies all…
Cutting Room at Perry Knitting Co.
Roughly thirty people, men and women, pictured by machinery in the cutting room. There are piles of white fabric and some sort of pulley apparatus on the ceiling. Storage shelves in the back of the picture are also filled with bolts of fabric.
Outside of Perry Knitting Co., Collarette machine
Uppermost image shows the outside of the Perry Knitting Co., and groups of workers: men walk together, women walk in a procession carrying umbrellas. In the corner of the picture, there is part of a horse drawn carriage or buggy of sorts. Electrical…
Cutters of the P.K. Co.
This striking photograph captures a moment in time when cutting textile patterns was in transformation from a skilled to a semi-skilled operation. Given all of machinery at the Perry Knitting Co., perhaps there's a statement being made via the pile…
Main Street before there was automobiles
Main Street before there was automobiles. <br />
A picture capturing Main Street of Perry lined with horse-and-buggies. On the right, a cluster of men in suits appear to be conversing. Shop fronts line the left side of the street.
Man in Blacksmith’s Shop
Man in blacksmith’s shop. <br />
A man stands working in a cluttered blacksmith’s shop. An anvil sits in the foreground. The man holds a long rod over a pot, presumably forming the piece of metal. <br />
Perry Knitting Co. seen from an aerial view. Showing the entirety of the mill.
Aerial print of the Perry Knitting Company without any of the airbrushing the other prints of a similar nature contain. Taken around 1949.
Perry Knitting Co. Power Plant and Mills from Walnut St. Bridge.
A print of the Perry Knitting Company, taken about 1910, showing the power plant and the mills.<br />
Perry Knitting Mills and Co. Advertisement Photo.
The Perry Knitting Company provided some of the prints of the mill to advertise for workers and also for their product. The company made long underwear, for both men and women, and garments for the military. Following World War II they began to…
Perry Knitting Co. Fillmore NY Mill Location
This print shows the Perry Knitting Company mill that was located in Fillmore. The picture was taken about 1950.<br />