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

A headshot of a Fries Mill employee

A Fries Mill employee holds a baby.

Jessie Jenkins stands behind a seated Johnny Pearman.

A headshot of mill employee Jimmy Spence

An image showing several mill employees using large hoses to wash waste products from the mill into the river.

Two facing pages from a mill ledger recording mill employees and their families.

A page from a mill ledger recording employee contributions to the Baptist Church in Fries, which they could have deducted from their paychecks.

A page from a mill ledger recording employee contributions to the Baptist Church in Fries, which they could have deducted from their paychecks.

A page from a mill ledger recording employee's membership dues for the Fries, Va. Y.M.C.A., seperated by mill department.

A page from a mill ledger recording employee contributions to the Methodist Church in Fries, which they could have deducted from their paychecks.

Two facing pages from a mill ledger recording the hours worked by individual employees.

Two facing pages from a mill ledger recording early mill employees and their families.

A photograph of a mill employee posing with holiday decorations in the mill.

A photograph of a musical group performing at an event honoring those employees who had worked at the mill for 25 years.

A photograph of a mill employee posing with holiday decorations in the mill.

A photograph of Frank Ritchie presenting a prize to Edna Kirby Vaughan on stage while a crowd watches at a mill-sponsored event.

A photograph of a young woman working on a machine winding bobbins.

A photograph of (left-right) Whiz Farmer, Shirley Trent Litteral, Larry Kirby, and an unknown man with flawless weaving

A photograph of a musical group performing at an event honoring those employees who had worked at the mill for 25 years.

A photograph of Sena Funk monitoring woven fabric being wound

A photograph of a group of employees receiving an award.

A photograph of three children eating watermelon at a mill-sponsored event in Fries, Va.

A photograph of Billy Funk holding a plaque while a man gives a speech and G.W. "Cobb" Archer and Flash Turner watch.

A photograph of Earl Johnson, Garnett Stuart, and Ramona Johnson in front of textile machinery.

A photograph of several people in front of the sign for the Fries Methodist Church, which says "Jesus! Zero Defects".

A photograph of three men having a discussion on the porch of the mill.

A photograph of a mill-employed nurse administering a shot to another employee, with a line of others waiting behind her.

A photograph of a mill employee monitoring yarn spinning.

A photograph of a group of employees, one of whom is receiving an award. Left-right: Calvert Wilie, Jessie Jenkins, Emmet Vaughan, rest unknown.

A photograph of two mill employees responsible for transferring yarn bobbins from one stage to another.

A photograph of several employees conversing near machines winding spun yarn onto bobbins for weaving.

A photograph of the weaving department of the Fries Mill in front of a calendar indicating that they had gone one year without injury on the job.

A photograph of an employee receiving a plaque and a statue of a bird.

A photograph of employees in line to get food in the mill cafeteria, with a "Zero Defects Our Goal" banner in the backround.

A photograph of employees eating in the mill cafeteria, with a "Zero Defects Our Goal" banner in the backround

A taped-together collage of informal employee photograps. Top, left-right: unknown, Cox, Jones, unknown. Middle, left-right: unknown, Henry Thornton, unknown, unknown. Bottom, left-right: unknown, Hutch Stata, Walter Johnson.

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

A memo sent to all departments notifying them that the Fries Mill would shut down knitting operations.

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

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 offering jobs and perks to a family in order to convince them to go work at the Fries 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 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 about a personnel change within the Fries Textile Mill.

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.