Floyd Hollenbeck sales kit for Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. stereoviews and viewer 2013.226
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Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Floyd Hollenbeck sales kit for Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. stereoviews and viewer 2013.226
Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 3 Historical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 4 Arrangement note ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 5 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5
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Summary Information
Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Hanes Hosiery Mills Co Creator - own: Hollenbeck, Floyd, 1920-2002 Title: Floyd Hollenbeck sales kit for Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. stereoviews and viewer ID: 2013.226 Date: circa 1965 Physical Description: 28 item(s) General Physical 24 stereoviews : color. 1 stereoviewer. 1 box. 1 instructions booklet. 1 Description: business card. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: Floyd Hollenbeck (1920-2002) worked for Trimfit Hosiery, a distribution company for Hanes Hosiery Mills Company. Hanes Hosiery Mills Company was established in 1901. Hanes was an early adoptor of manufacturing nylon hosiery which was created in 1938. Hanes Hosiery Mills researched and developed seamless pantyhose by the mid-1960s. This collection contains twenty-four stereoviews of the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company Winston-Salem manufacturing plant and offices.
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Historical Note
Hanes Hosiery Mills Company was established in 1901 as Shamrock Mills, operating out of Winston- Salem, North Carolina. In 1914 the company's name changed and in 1918 the manufacturing focus shifted from men's socks to women's socks.
Hanes was an early adoptor of manufacturing nylon hosiery which was created in 1938. Hanes Hosiery Mills researched and developed seamless pantyhose by the mid-1960s.
In 1965 Hanes Hoisery Mills Co. and P. H. Hanes Knitting Company mergered to form the Hanes Corporation, which was subsumed by the Sara Lee Corporation in 1979. The Hanes division continues to operate its headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Biographical Note
Floyd Hollenbeck (1920-2002) worked for Trimfit Hosiery, a distribution company for Hanes Hosiery Mills Company. Hollenbeck worked out of Los Angeles, California and seemed to have covered a fairly large sales region on the west coast. He would travel to various department stores contract with them to sell Hanes Hosiery.
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Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty-four stereoviews of the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company Winston-Salem manufacturing plant and offices. The stereoviews were used to demonstrate how nylon stockings were made. The sales kit was used around the time that nylon pantyhose ceased to have seams down the back. The process of making seamless stockings differed from the previous method. The images show workers performing various tasks throughout the manufacturing process. The collection also includes the stereoviewer, stereoviewer instruction booklet and Floyd Hollenbeck's business card.
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Arrangement note
Stereoviews are numbered "0" through "22," missing numbers "13" and "14" and possibly "3B" (there is a "3" and a "3A").
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections
PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library
Access Restrictions This collection is open for research.
Existence and Location of Copies View the stereoviews online in the Hagley Digital Archives.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Hosiery industry • Sales promotion • Stereographs • Nylon
Collection Inventory
Title/Description Instances View of Mill, circa 1965 box 1
Exterior of Office, circa 1965 box 1
General Office, circa 1965 box 1
Knitting, circa 1965 box 1
Seamless knitting machine, circa 1965 box 1
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Looping, circa 1965 box 1
Inspecting, circa 1965 box 1
Pre-boarding, circa 1965 box 1
Dye House, circa 1965 box 1
Dye House Laboratory, circa 1965 box 1
Final Boarding, circa 1965 box 1
Pairing, circa 1965 box 1
Stamping, circa 1965 box 1
Packing, circa 1965 box 1
Elasticity, circa 1965 box 1
Measured stick, circa 1965 box 1
Executive Office, circa 1965 box 1
New York Office, circa 1965 box 1
Seamless fashion growing, circa 1965 box 1
Hanes proportioned fit, circa 1965 box 1
Reinforced heal and toe for the closed shoe, circa 1965 box 1
Dullace stocking for mesh shoe, circa 1965 box 1
Nude heel, demi toe for open-back shoe, circa 1965 box 1
Seamless barefoot stocking for barefoot shoe, circa 1965 box 1
Floyd Hollenbeck, Trimfit Hosiery business card, circa 1973 box 1 Scope and Contents
Handwritten note on back of card reads: "All of these pictures are 8 yrs. old + improvements have been made. Press the red button on top (is a light inside)."
Stereo Realist Viewer, instruction booklet, circa 1950s box 1
Stereo Realist Viewer, ST-61, circa 1950s box 1
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