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The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Print taken about 1900 of the Perry Knitting Mill and the seamstresses sewing up the underwear made at the time." This seems plausible given some of the photograph's details. There is no overhead electrical…

According to the Rice Collection annotation, this is "Perry Knitting Mill from an early plate, 1880." That pre-dates the operation, but it does seem as though we're looking at the original Mill #1 building at an early date, prior to construction of…

According to the Rice Collection annotation, &quot;The Mill sponsored a bowling team and these six individuals went to the 28th Annual New York State Championship Tournament, held in Niagara Falls in 1961.&quot; <br /> <br /> Pictured from left to right are: Melanie…

Man building Perry Knitting Company Outlet Store on North Center Street

By this time, Champion must have been utilizing the building. Clark did these prints for the Champion Company going to Rochester, Livonia, Geneseo and the Perry plant.

This GIS map was created to support the Dansville Ever-Green map, itself an experiment to recover historical knowledge for the purposes of envisioning a bioregional economy & culture. Its premise is to draw a 50-mile radius around the town of…

The Rice Collection annotation describes this as &quot;Part of the spinning process at the Perry Knitting Company,&quot; where we see four visitors pause to look while a factory worker stands by.

What appears to be a mill worker poses with a woman wearing a name tag and corsage. Given other photos in this sequence she may be a teacher at Perry Central School, who were given special tours along with the children. <br /> <br /> The Rice Collection…

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;Vernon Saunders and Howard Sanford look over another procedure during the P.K. Open House...&quot; The two men were teachers at the Perry Central School.

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;Mrs. Charles Torrey, a teacher at Perry Elementary School, looks over part of the process during the Perry Knitting Mill Open House in 1954.&quot;<br /> <br /> It appears that the machines are sanders of some kind. Mrs. Torrey…