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  • Rights is exactly "<a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc">Permission to publish material from the Fries Textile Plant Records Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a>"

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A letter to the mill superintendant asking about jobs for men being released from jail.

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An image of a bobbin winding machine sent to the Fries mill.

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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

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A letter from Herbert Neisser, MD, inquiring about a position at the mill.

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A letter sent to a lawyer with the legal description and plat of the parcel of land on which the Y.M.C.A. building stands, requesting a deed be drawn up.

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A map showing the intended layout for the mill.

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A letter to responding to a telegram about a man potentially trying to convince mill employees to quit in order to work at another company.

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A letter asking about a man detained in Atlanta who was possibly wanted for murder in Fries.

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A letter from Haywood Haynes informing the mill that he and his family would be coming to work at the mill, with information about his family and their housing needs.

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A letter from the principal of the high school asking for scrap cloth to clean the school.

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A letter from the principal of the high school informing the mill adminstration that a tank in the Home Economics Cottage had begun to leak.

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A document from a electoral judge for the Town of Fries, Va.

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A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.

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A letter explaining plans to build a new Baptist Church on Main Street in Fries, Va.

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A short missive from the president of Wachovia Loan and Trust Company and the founder and president of Washington Mills Company, Col. Francis H. Fries, thanking the mill superintendent for sending updates about operations. Includes and example of the…

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Homer Lineberry (Shift Manager, Winding 2nd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation), Betty Akers (Zero Defects Achievment Award Winner), Hobert Akers (Husband), Lisa and Sherri Akers (Daughters), H. D. Kingsmore (President,…

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

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Charles Hill and Harold Funk present Betty Turner with a clock

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Gene Taylor (Shift Manager, Carding 3rd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Raymond Sapp (Award Winner)

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Early Doss (Shift Manager, Weaving, 1st Shift), Ralph Vaughan (Award Winner), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Rose Vaughan (Mother of Ralph), Jack Bowman (Weaving Mill Manager)

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

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Walter Johnson and Bill Barker present a plaque to an employee

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

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

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Calvert Willie, middle

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Tom Hill and Phipps Moore

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Tom Hill and Gladys Pollard

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Vina Taylor 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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Betty Thornton, Betty Sexton, Lela Funk, Ruth Reever, and Kate Byrd

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Ethel Walker 35 year service award, presented by Walter Johnson

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Jackie Sharp in a field with many others in front of a helicopter

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Jackie Sharp in a field with a man

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Jackie Sharp and Glenda Lyons standing in front of a Christmas tree

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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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4th from the back: Boyd "Mac" Tsom

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

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Hobart Lane, right

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Three men stand together, facing the camera, in front of textile machinery.
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