Browse Items (215 total)

  • Collection: Fries Textile Plant Records, 1900-1988 (Ms1989-039)
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A letter to the mill superintendant asking about jobs for men being released from jail.
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An image of a bobbin winding machine sent to the Fries mill.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter from Herbert Neisser, MD, inquiring about a position at the mill.
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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…
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A map showing the intended layout for the mill.
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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.
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A letter asking about a man detained in Atlanta who was possibly wanted for murder in Fries.
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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…
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A letter from the principal of the high school asking for scrap cloth to clean the school.
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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.
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A document from a electoral judge for the Town of Fries, Va.
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A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.
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A letter explaining plans to build a new Baptist Church on Main Street in Fries, Va.
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A short missive from the president of Wachovia Loan and Trust Company and the founder and president of Washington Mills Company, Col. Francis H.…
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Homer Lineberry (Shift Manager, Winding 2nd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation), Betty Akers (Zero Defects Achievment Award…
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Fries Textile Co. Employee Award presentation, the Whis Farmer Family with John Belvins in the foreground
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Charles Hill and Harold Funk present Betty Turner with a clock
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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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Early Doss (Shift Manager, Weaving, 1st Shift), Ralph Vaughan (Award Winner), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Rose Vaughan…
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Walter Johnson, Jack Bowman, Reuben Bond, James Gray, and Al Barnhill
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Walter Johnson and Bill Barker present a plaque to an employee
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L-R: Jimmy Burnett, Harold Funk Tommy Rutheford, Tom Pue
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B, R: Kirb. F, L-R: George Stuart, "Hetty" Alice Pearman, Funk
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Calvert Willie, middle
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Tom Hill and Phipps Moore
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Tom Hill and Gladys Pollard
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Vina Taylor administers a flu shot to a woman
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Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman
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Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman
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Betty Thornton, Betty Sexton, Lela Funk, Ruth Reever, and Kate Byrd
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Ethel Walker 35 year service award, presented by Walter Johnson
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Jackie Sharp in a field with many others in front of a helicopter
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Jackie Sharp in a field with a man
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Jackie Sharp and Glenda Lyons standing in front of a Christmas tree
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Sena and Harold Funk with a newborn baby
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Adeline Shupe is shown something by a man
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4th from the back: Boyd "Mac" Tsom
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Back, left to right: Gilbert Lawson, unknown, unknown, Walter Johnson. F, M: Robert Blaine Wright
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Hobart Lane, right
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Three men stand together, facing the camera, in front of textile machinery.
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