Berkshire Knitting Mills photograph album

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    The Berkshire Knitting Mills was once part of a triad of companies in Reading and Wyomissing, Pennsylvania owned by Henry Janssen (1866-1948) and Ferdinand Thun (1866-1949) known as Wyomissing Industries, which also included the Textile Machine Work and the Narrow Fabric Company. Built and incorporated between 1892 and 1906, these companies expanded rapidly between 1900 and 1930, becoming was the world’s largest manu­facturer of women’s hosiery.
    The Berkshire Knitting Mills photographic album (Accession 1992.249) is a bound album of documentation and captioned views depicting the Berkshire Knitting Mills factory, workers, and manufacturing processes in the years 1906 to 1923, a period in which the Mills were celebrated as the largest full-fashioned knitting mill in the world.
    Image: Seaming department, 1925. Click to view.

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