A photograph said to be taken in 1906 of the Snyder Shirt Factory, 22 Buttonwood Street, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Shirt manufacturing in Elizabethville began in April 1905 when W. R. Snyder rented from J. A. Romberger, the main building of the old Byerly Wagon Works on Buttonwood Street and began operations on Monday afternoon May 8 [1905] with twelve employees and A. N. Rummel of Myerstown as temporary foreman. On August 7, 1917, Mr. Snyder sold his Elizabethville and Berrysburg factories to Rossman-Weaver, Inc., when there were less than fifty employees in the Elizabethville plant.
In 1931, the building on the northwest corner of Spruce and Buttonwood Streets was purchased and operations of the plant were consolidated with those of the the Elizabethville Shirt Factory in the Kerstetter Building at No. 11 East Main Street, which William P. Ingle had operated since August 1919 and which was then discontinued….
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From: History of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1817-1967. For availability of this book and other materials on Elizabethville history, contact the Elizabethville Area Historical Society.
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