Floyd Hollenbeck sales kit for Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. stereoviews and viewer
Creation: circa 1965Abstract
Floyd Hollenbeck (1920-2002) worked for Trimfit Hosiery, a Hanes Hosiery Mills Company distribution company. Hanes Hosiery Mills Company was established in 1901. Hanes was an early adoptor of manufacturing nylon hosiery, created in 1938. Hanes Hosiery Mills researched and developed seamless pantyhose by the mid-1960s. This collection contains twenty-four Hanes Hosiery Mills Company Winston-Salem manufacturing plants and office stereoviews.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1965
Creator
- Hanes Hosiery Mills Co (Organization)
- Hollenbeck, Floyd, 1920-2002 (Owner, Person)
Extent
28 item(s)
General Physical Description
24 stereoviews : color. 1 stereoviewer. 1 box. 1 instructions booklet. 1 business card.
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 to women's socks. Hanes was an early adoptor of manufacturing nylon hosiery, created in 1938. Hanes Hosiery Mills researched and developed seamless pantyhose by the mid-1960s. In 1965, Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. and P. H. Hanes Knitting Company merged to form the Hanes Corporation and later joined the Sara Lee Corporation in 1979. The Hanes division continues to operate its headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Biographical Note
Floyd Hollenbeck (1920-2002) worked for Trimfit Hosiery, a Hanes Hosiery Mills Company distribution 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 and contract with them to sell Hanes Hosiery.
Arrangement note
Stereoviews are numbered "0" through "22," missing numbers "13" and "14" and possibly "3B" (there is a "3" and a "3A").
Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty-four Hanes Hosiery Mills Company Winston-Salem manufacturing plants and office stereoviews. The stereoviews were used to demonstrate how nylon stockings were made. The sales kit was used when 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.
Existence and Location of Copies
View the stereoviews online in the Hagley Digital Archives.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Floyd Hollenbeck sales kit for Hanes Hosiery Mills Co. stereoviews and viewer
- Author:
- Laurie Rizzo
- Date:
- 2013.
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
