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The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Leah White looks over the flamingoes used to advertise the Nitey Nites in store windows. These flamingoes were being housed at the Mill in 1954." This date is probably in correct; although no such event was…

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;Another part of the operation of the Nitey Nite line in the Mill, Open House, 1954.&quot;<br /> <br /> This date probably is wrong, since there is no mention of a PKC open house in the newspapers that year. On May 27, 1953 the…

According to the Rice Collection annotation, we&#039;re looking at &quot;Children from school who had been invited to the Open House at the Perry Knitting Company in 1954.&quot; It appears that at least one of the adults listening may be a schoolteacher.<br /> <br /> This…

Soda pops in hand, a group of students appear to be engrossed in some sort of game or attraction designed for them. As the Perry Herald explained, “Schools of the area have been invited to visit the plant in groups and the Perry schools have…

The Rice Collection annotation describes this scene as &quot;One of the supervisors showing the cotton knitting machine that was used to make the cloth for the Nitey Nite p.j.s.&quot;<br /> <br /> Cotton yarn in barrels suggest the scale of the company&#039;s operation. The…

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…

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.

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 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.

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…