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

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

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Walter Johnson and Bill Barker present a plaque to an employee

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

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

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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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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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