Browse Items (215 total)

  • Collection: Fries Textile Plant Records, 1900-1988 (Ms1989-039)
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Back, left to right: Gilbert Lawson, unknown, unknown, Walter Johnson. F, M: Robert Blaine Wright
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L-R: Jimmy Burnett, Harold Funk Tommy Rutheford, Tom Pue
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Walter Johnson, Jack Bowman, Reuben Bond, James Gray, and Al Barnhill
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Hobart Lane, right
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A page from a mill ledger tracking maintenance work done on the mill-owned houses in Fries, Va.
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A map showing the water depth of the mill pond for the Fries Textile Plant.
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A photograph of a mill employee monitoring yarn spinning.
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A photograph of employees in line to get food in the mill cafeteria, with a "Zero Defects Our Goal" banner in the backround.
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an indemnity bond between the First National Bank of Fries and the Washington Mills Company, to correct an error with their payroll.
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Jackie Sharp in a field with a man
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Jackie Sharp in a field with many others in front of a helicopter
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Jackie Sharp and Glenda Lyons standing in front of a Christmas tree
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Jessie Jenkins stands behind a seated Johnny Pearman.
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A headshot of mill employee Jimmy Spence
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A headshot of John Cox
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A photograph of three children eating watermelon at a mill-sponsored event in Fries, Va.
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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 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 from a school supply company confirming an order of tablet arm chairs.
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A letter from the mill president congratulating Fries High School students on their athletic accomplishments
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A letter from the state of Virginia offering assistance to test Fries residents for hookworm.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding some land given to the state in order to redo a state highway.
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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…
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A letter explaining some features of plat drawn up by a surveyor on behalf of 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 letter from the mill Vice President and Mayor of Fries, allowing the Highway Department to clean up a specified piece of land.
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A letter sent by the state confirming that the mill provided all utilities for the town.
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A letter from a resident of Fries reporting their neighbor to the mill administration for perceived suspicious behavior.
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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 sent to the mayor of Fries asking about moving to town to set up shop as a dentist.
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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 letter offering jobs and perks to a family in order to convince them to go work at the Fries mill.
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A letter from the mayor of Fries requesting that the mill administration make some repairs to the town jail.
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A letter asking the mill to support an amendement that would change the way the work of women and children was limited in Virginia.
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A letter allowing the grocery store to build an extension to the building.
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