Browse Items (90 total)

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

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

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

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

A letter sent by the state confirming that the mill provided all utilities for the town.

A letter from the mill Vice President and Mayor of Fries, allowing the Highway Department to clean up a specified piece of land.

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 explaining some features of plat drawn up by a surveyor on behalf of the mill.

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.

A letter regarding some land given to the state in order to redo a state highway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A letter from the mill president congratulating Fries High School students on their athletic accomplishments

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

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.

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

Letter written by Joshua, addressed "to all" Sent from Barre's Landing, Bayou Contrable, May 18th, 1863. Letter has a transcription.

Letter written by Joshua Hawkes , addressed "to all", he mentions Willie, Conway, John, Sarah, and Mary by name. Sent from Baton Rouge, March 14th, 1962. Letter has a transcription.

Letter written by Joshua Hawkes to his sister Mary. Sent from Baton Rouge La. Feb. 3rd. 1863. Letter has a transcription.

A letter written to Joshua Hawkes sister by Joshua on Dec 15th, 1862. Sent from Steamer Illinois, in the river at New Orleans. Letter has a transcription.

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

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

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

A letter responding to another company's attempts to collect on an alleged $2 debt.

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

A letter from the Werthan Bag Corporation asking the mill to resell their empty bags to help with the war effort.

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

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

A letter to Dr. Wilmer Hodgson asking him to resign as mill doctor for Fries.

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

A letter about a personnel change within the Fries Textile Mill.