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  • Creator is exactly "Fries Textile Plant (Fries, Va.)"

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Tom Hill and Gladys Pollard

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Tom Hill and Phipps Moore

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Sena and Harold Funk with a newborn baby

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Adeline Shupe is shown something by a man

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Calvert Willie, middle

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A photograph of mill employee Annie Hylton holding a safety diorama.

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A headshot of Arthur Underwood

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Joe Bob Davis and Frank Richie present an award to Faye Nelson

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Harold Funk presents an award

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Walter Johnson and Lewis Waller present an award

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James Gray (Supervisor in weaving room) and Walter Johnson present a clock radio to an employee

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Reuben Bond presents a prize to an employee

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Charles Hill and Harold Funk present Betty Turner with a clock

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Fries Textile Co. Employee Award presentation, the Whis Farmer Family with John Belvins in the foreground

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Betty G. Stevens stands with two other women getting food

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a headshot of Bill Barker

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A headshot of mill employee Caroline Bond.

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A headshot of a Fries Mill employee

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A copy of the deed registering the sale of a piece of land by Dwight C. Funk to the Washington Mills Company on May 31, 1960.

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Ethel Walker 35 year service award, presented by Walter Johnson

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Sinia James, Bradley Lineberry, Jean Miller Lineberry, Arlene Miller, and Darren Lineberry

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A summary of income from the department store in Fries, Va, 1936.

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Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman

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Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman

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Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman

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Vina Taylor administers a flu shot to a woman

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Gilbert Lawson poses with an older man

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B, R: Kirb. F, L-R: George Stuart, "Hetty" Alice Pearman, Funk

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Shirley Trent Litteral and Whiz Farmer, far sides

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A group stands together, including Harrson Jones (2nd from left) and Betty Wright (far right)

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Gertrude Bates and family

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Wanda Buttons, Tom Hill, Helen Beamer, and Jerry Moore

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Back, left to right: Gilbert Lawson, unknown, unknown, Walter Johnson. F, M: Robert Blaine Wright

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L-R: Jimmy Burnett, Harold Funk Tommy Rutheford, Tom Pue

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Walter Johnson, Jack Bowman, Reuben Bond, James Gray, and Al Barnhill

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Hobart Lane, right

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Jackie Sharp in a field with a man

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