Jarvis, Elissa Women sewing hosiery Women on benches sewing nylon for panty hose. Date from negative sleeve. 0741-b12-fd-v12.d.17 2996 -65 19570813 eng still image negatives 10cm x 12.5cm Panty hose craft North Carolina Greenville Sewing machines North Carolina Greenville United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) Women hosiery workers North Carolina Greenville Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) contributor Economics Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ The Daily Reflector Image Collection reflector Manufacturing and Business mab Women's History wh 0741 Women sewing hosiery Women on benches sewing nylon for panty hose. Date from negative sleeve. Panty hose craft--North Carolina--Greenville Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) 19570813 StillImage negatives J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 2996 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ Sewing machines--North Carolina--Greenville United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) Women hosiery workers--North Carolina--Greenville These ladies are probably sewing together the two edges of fully fashioned stockings, rather than pantyhose. They are putting the "seam" in seamed stockings.  Pantyhose was developed and mass produced in the 1960s and later.    Stockings Mill Work Hosiery Full Fashion local, filename 2996.0001 27614312 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 595938592101f63a3aa335d69cd61e64 ecu:digital_collections 4145 3328 Grayscale BlackIsZero 100 mm 125 mm 20081015 Digital Collections Epson Perfection V750 PRO Silverfast Ai v6.4.4r7 object plane in. 875 1 875 1 16 integer 1 internal