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For many years, the Perry Knitting Co. had operated an informal store in Mill #1 that sold factory seconds at reduced prices. The 1950s saw creation of the company's own Nitey Nite brand sleepwear, and direct marketing of its products. A separate…

From the Walnut St. bridge we see a 210 ft. smokestack, built in 1924 and eventually demolished in 1973. Next to it is the factory's power house and in the foreground is a circular cooling tower. An earlier plant, built in 1894, burned coal to power…

A print of the Perry Knitting Company, taken about 1910, showing the power plant and the mills.<br />

8 x 10 print of the old power plant at the Perry Knitting Company from the Walnut Street Bridge, apparently taken about 1949.<br />

Kate Pidgeon was a secretary in the mill offices for many years. This is when they had a party for her birthday and Father Sexton, the priest of the Church where Kate attended, was also there. I am not sure whether this was taken at the mill or…

Aerial print of the Perry Knitting Company without any of the airbrushing the other prints of a similar nature contain. Taken around 1949.

Interior of the sewing room at the Perry Knitting Company. I think, with the turmoil shown, that this must have been following the closure of the mill that occurred about 1969. I think this print was taken to send to other mills to show what the…

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;Print taken about 1900 of the Perry Knitting Mill and the seamstresses sewing up the underwear made at the time.&quot; This seems plausible given some of the photograph&#039;s details. There is no overhead electrical…

Several walkways connected different mills in the PKC complex. The reverse side of this photograph explains what is happening: &quot;1:30 am Sat. April 28, 1973. Fire in walkway over Water St. between two buildings of former Perry Knitting Co. property.…

A decade after the PKC had gone out of business, the challenge of how to deal with its former property and buildings was vexing. At least a few of them were rented by tenants, but in other cases they presented imminent hazards--an iconic smokestack…