Browse Items (51 total)

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 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 headshot of mill employee Jimmy Spence

Jessie Jenkins stands behind a seated Johnny Pearman.

A Fries Mill employee holds a baby.

A headshot of a Fries Mill employee

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

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

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 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 about a personnel change within the Fries Textile Mill.

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

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

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

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

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

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 a mill employee monitoring yarn spinning.

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

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

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

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

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

A photograph of a group of employees receiving an award.

A photograph of Sena Funk monitoring woven fabric being wound

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

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

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 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.

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

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

A page from a mill ledger recording employee contributions to the Methodist 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 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.

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