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Perry Knitting Company and the women walking home from work.

From the Rice collection annotation: "Women working in the sewing section of the Perry Knitting Company. First woman in the picture is Janice Vosburg. Male supervisors walk around quality checking and checking quantities." This photograph almost…

Dozens of women create what are probably items of Nitey-Nite sleepwear at the Perry Knitting Co.

A group of female office workers at the Perry Knitting Company smile while they have their picture taken. The calendar appears to read November. From left to right, the second girl's name is Lucy Allen and the sixth girl's name is Sally Davis.

Six women are shown at work in the spinning room. According to the "Perry Knitting Company News," an occasional feature in the Perry Herald, they are: Laura Lounsbury, Stella Fronczak, Helen Stark, Irene Rohl, Genevieve Blaszak, and Margaret…

A photo of a woman sitting on something that looks like a bucket in Jablonski's Potato Camp in Steuben City. She has a sack behind her and is surrounded by potatoes.

In low light, perhaps after a day of work, five women gather to talk. They are likely migrant farmworkers, sitting on wooden pallets that are used in the harvest of fruit or vegetables. The time of year may be fall, because one of the pallets has…

This item consists of a short video of the picturesque creek in Letchworth State Park, and a screenshot for the purposes of mobile devices. It depicts a section just before it goes over Wolf Creek Falls into the Genesee River.

Number 12 on the Burleigh Map, the location of Hamilton's office alongside the New York Central Railroad suggests the importance of his operation to Caledonia's economy. In addition to his farming interests Hamilton (1832-1912) was a produce dealer,…