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From the annotated description: "The Sedam operation at the former Perry Knitting Company site, probably about 1989." Sedam Tire is a company still providing service for vehicles and agricultural equipment, albeit not at this site.

From the annotated description: &quot;Print showing the Perry Knitting Mill that Clark notes as being Mill # 1, water powered, date taken unknown.&quot;<br /> <br /> The building in the background, Cataract Custom Mill, was located just downstream from Mill #1 and…

From the annotated description reads: &quot;Print showing the Perry Knitting Mill taken by the new metal bridge on Walnut Street, made from an original glass plate, probably about 1910.&quot; The iron span was constructed in 1902 by the Owego Bridge Company,…

An apparent copy of an extremely detailed map for the purposes of fire insurance, this diagram contains several important kinds of information. It supplies us with the names of different buildings, and the date they were constructed. It tells us…

Boy and girl are posed, with a scene-stealing dog, wearing Nitey Nite pajamas for promotional photo whose proposed tagline is inked on print.<br /> <br /> Clark Rice writes: &quot;Another Nitey-Nite pajama picture. Not all these prints would have been used in their…

This survey from the Official American Textile Directory shows some175 New York communities with some sort of textile firm, in most cases more than one (for example, the town of Perry has three). Also noted on the map are rail lines connecting the…

Celebrating its 75th year of operation, the largest employer invited Perry townspeople for a two-hour tour of its facilities, during which 1,000 employers were at work to demonstrate the machines. There were refreshments and live flamingos. This…

We look down upon the factory located alongside Silver Lake Outlet. Mill No. 1 is next to the smokestack, with Mill No. alongside. In the near foreground, on Elm Street, are Mills No. 4 and 5 (which later burned down in 1970). Behind them is the…

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