Browse Items (67 total)

A letter from a school supply company confirming an order of tablet arm chairs.

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, July 27, 1916

Envelope, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, July 27, 1916

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, September 9, 1916

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, undated [likely 1917]

Envelope, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, September 9, 1916

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, April 26, 1918

Envelope, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, April 26, 1918

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, October 3 [1918]

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jonesm, undated [likely 1922 or 1923]

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, July 22, 1924

Envelope, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, July 22, 1924

Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, December 14, 1924

Envelope, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, December 14, 1924

A letter from a resident of Fries reporting their neighbor to the mill administration for perceived suspicious behavior.

A letter sent to the mayor of Fries asking about moving to town to set up shop as a dentist.

A note sent in by an employee explaining their inability to work for several days.

A letter from a mechanical engineer at Virginia Tech explaining the required dimensions of a part for the mill.

A letter asking the mill to support an amendement that would change the way the work of women and children was limited in Virginia.

A letter from a doctor at the University of Virginia who came to Fries to help tend flu victims.

Letter (photocopy) from Albert Einstein to Robert E. Marshak, dated March 3, 1953, thanking him for giving time and energy to the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa.

A suggested template about workplace safety, sent to the Fries Textile Plant.

A letter from Mrs. Jack Epps asking for fabric samples to match her new wallpaper.

A letter offering jobs and perks to a family in order to convince them to go work at the Fries mill.

A letter from the state of Virginia offering assistance to test Fries residents for hookworm.

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…

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Telegram dated February 20, 1967, from Ruth and Robert E. Marshak to Kitty Oppenheimer offering condolences for the passing of her husband J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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.

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

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

Letter dated December 1, 1947, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding Marshak's appointment as a member of the School of Methematics of the Institute for Advanced Study for the spring 1948 semester.

Letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak regarding his presence in France as well as CERN.

Telegram from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak informing him that he will be in Europe on May 8, 1963, to speak to Marshak or "Eklund."

Thank you note, undated, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Robert E. Marshak. Oppenheimer was thanking Marshak for his note on Okubo [probably University of Rochester physicist Susumu Okubo], and telling him to have a good time on his trip.

Telegram, dated October 27, 1947, from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Frédéric Joliot-Curie informing them that he would not be able to attend the ceremony to honor Ernest Rutherford, Lord Rutherford.

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

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

A letter from Mrs. Patsie Pruitt asking for her job back at the mill. She had moved to Maryland, but wanted to go back to Fries because child labor laws in Maryland prevented her children from working.

A letter from a pharmacist in Galax, VA, reporting on unpayed accounts of mill employees for prescription drugs.

A letter to a former mill employee accusing him of trying to convince his former coworkers at the mill to quit and join him at his new company.

A letter introducing a new mill employee, sent to the Fries Mill from another mill owned by the Washington Mills Company.

A letter from the treasurer of the Washignton Mills Company inquiring about several employees wh had quit their jobs in North Carolina in order to work at the mill in Fries.