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Charles Hill and Harold Funk present Betty Turner with a clock

Walter Johnson, Jack Bowman, Reuben Bond, James Gray, and Al Barnhill

Walter Johnson and Bill Barker present a plaque to an employee

L-R: Jimmy Burnett, Harold Funk Tommy Rutheford, Tom Pue

Calvert Willie, middle

Vina Taylor administers a flu shot to a woman

Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman

Jackie Sharp administers a flu shot to a woman

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 four cheerleaders from Fries Hish School, posing on the stairs to the Town Hall.

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 an employee giving blood at a mill-operated blood drive.

A photograph of a group of Fries residents, largely children. David Jones, 2nd from left, Mandy Hager, 4th from left, middle row.

A photograph of a group of people in front of the sign for the high school in Fries, Va. Back Row, left-right: Don Martin, Rick Phipps, Mike Phipps, Ricky Wilson. Front Row, left-right: Warren Reavis, Mr. Stone, Diane Staynes, John Patterson

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 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 photograph of Ronni Michelle Criner as "Little Miss Fries" in a town parade.

A formal photograph of the Fries High School football team. Back row, left-right: Mike Phipps, Don Martin, unknown, unknown, Todd Dickson, unknown, unknown, unknown, Johnny Lambert, unknown, Bill Moore, unknown, unknown, unknown, Richy Wilson, Rick…

A photograph of six young women in matching cheerleading outfits, on a stage with pompoms.

A letter asking the mill to support an amendement that would change the way the work of women and children was limited in Virginia.

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

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

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

A map showing the intended layout for the mill.

Homer Lineberry (Shift Manager, Winding 2nd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation), Betty Akers (Zero Defects Achievment Award Winner), Hobert Akers (Husband), Lisa and Sherri Akers (Daughters), H. D. Kingsmore (President,…