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Dying or Washing Room
Two men are standing at the dying/washing station at the Perry Knitting Company. Steam was the main source of power. The Perry Knitting Company used 130,000 gallons of filtered water daily to wash a dye clothes.
Perry Knitting Co. Fillmore NY Mill Location
This print shows the Perry Knitting Company mill that was located in Fillmore. The picture was taken about 1950.<br />
Perry Knitting Mills and Co. Advertisement Photo.
The Perry Knitting Company provided some of the prints of the mill to advertise for workers and also for their product. The company made long underwear, for both men and women, and garments for the military. Following World War II they began to…
CIO Handbill
This single-side document probably dates to a 1937 effort to unionize the Perry Knitting Co. employees. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee met considerable resistance from company management and some employees, who staged a "Loyalty Parade"…
Perry Knitting Co. Power Plant and Mills from Walnut St. Bridge.
A print of the Perry Knitting Company, taken about 1910, showing the power plant and the mills.<br />
CIO Broadside
Probably circulated during an unsuccessful unionizing drive at the Perry Knitting Co. in 1937, this flyer is addressed not only to employees but the larger Perry community. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee ask, rhetorically, why the Perry…
Perry Knitting Co. seen from an aerial view. Showing the entirety of the mill.
Aerial print of the Perry Knitting Company without any of the airbrushing the other prints of a similar nature contain. Taken around 1949.
Man in Blacksmith’s Shop
Man in blacksmith’s shop. <br />
A man stands working in a cluttered blacksmith’s shop. An anvil sits in the foreground. The man holds a long rod over a pot, presumably forming the piece of metal. <br />
Main Street before there was automobiles
Main Street before there was automobiles. <br />
A picture capturing Main Street of Perry lined with horse-and-buggies. On the right, a cluster of men in suits appear to be conversing. Shop fronts line the left side of the street.
Cutters of the P.K. Co.
This striking photograph captures a moment in time when cutting textile patterns was in transformation from a skilled to a semi-skilled operation. Given all of machinery at the Perry Knitting Co., perhaps there's a statement being made via the pile…