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Niagara Silk Mills

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Niagara Silk Mills postcard The Niagara Silk Mills plant once dominated Sweeney Street, standing where Gateway Center is today. Postcard c. 1912. The Niagara Silk Mills (later Van Raalte Silk Mills) produced ladies' undergarments, gloves, and similar fineries. They marketed their materials with the iconography of Niagara Falls (reminiscent of the Pan Am Exposition imagery), and with appearances by silent film sirens.

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Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c.1905).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c.1905).jpg

Van Raalte grounds and workers, 1907 photo (Images of America, Historical Society of the Tonawandas).jpg

Van Raalte grounds and workers, photo (THS book).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c 1907).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c 1907).jpg

Niagara SIlk Mills, Niagara Gloves, advertisement (1908).jpg

Niagara SIlk Mills, Niagara Gloves, advertisement (1908).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - logotype on envelope (1908).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - logotype on envelope (1908).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - Niagara Maid, ad (1908).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - Niagara maid illustration (1908).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, photo ad (Good Housekeeping, 1909).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills photo ad (Good Housekeeping, 1909).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, postcard, hi-res (1909-02-27).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, postcard, hi-res (1909-02-27).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, advertisement (1910).png

Niagara Silk Mills, Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, advertisement (1910).png

Niagara Silk Mills, Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, advertisement (c1910).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, advertisement (c1910).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, North Tonawanda, postcard (c1910).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, North Tonawanda, postcard (c1910).jpg

Sweeney Building and Silk Mill, postcard (c1910).jpg

Sweeney Building and Silk Mill, postcard.jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, YMCA, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg

Also depicted: Real Estate Exchange Building, a livery, carriage repair and painting, the Y.W.C.A. and its? gymnasium.

Niagara Maid Gloves, Niagara Silk Mills, ad (Womens Home Companion, 1910).jpg

Niagara Maid Gloves, Niagara Silk Mills, ad (Womens Home Companion, 1910).jpg

Niagara Maid silk gloves, Louise Gunning, postcard (1910).jpg

Niagara Maid silk gloves, Louise Gunning, postcard (1910).jpeg

Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c1910).jpeg

Niagara Silk Mills, postcard (c1910).jpeg

Niagara Silk Millks, illustrated envelope (1911).jpg

Niagara Silk Millks, illustrated envelope (1911).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, illustrated guarantee ticket (c1914).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, illustrated guarantee ticket (c1914).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, detail, illustrated letter (1914-06-10).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, detail, illustrated letter (1914-06-10).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, illustrated letter (1914-06-10).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, illustrated letter (1914-06-10).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, Gaby Deslys, postcard (c1915).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, Gay Deslys, illsytrated postcard.jpg

Niagara Silk Mills Exhibit, postcard (1915).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills Exhibit, illustrated postcard (1915).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, Emma Carus, postcard (c1915).jpg

Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, Emma Carus, postcard (c1915).jpg

Kellerman in Daughter of the Gods (1916).jpg

Kellerman in Daughter of the Gods.jpg

Niagara Maid illustration ad, The Glove That Lends Distinction (1916).jpg

Niagara Maid illustration ad, The Glove That Lends Distinction (1916).jpg

Niaga Silk Mills Changes Hands, article (New York Times, 1917-03-24).jpg

Niaga Silk Mills Changes Hands, article (New York Times, 1917-03-24).jpg

Van Raalte, photo ad (1917-10-06, Dry Goods Economist Magazine).jpg

Van Raalte, photo ad (October 6, 1917, Dry Goods Economist Magazine).jpg

Tonawanda dam. Looking north from the Tonawanda side, photo (NYSA, 1918-02-14).jpg

Tonawanda dam. Looking north from the Tonawanda side, photo (NYSA, 1918-02-14).jpg

Dam, canal, Webster Street, Sweeney power building, Niagara Silk Mills

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad (c1920).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad (c1920).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad (c1920).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad 2 (c1920).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, photo ad (c1920).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, photo ad (c1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, ad print (c1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills, ad print (c1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - Solk Gloves, postcard (c1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills - Solk Gloves, postcard (c1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Maid, postcard (c.1920).jpg

Niagara Silk Maid, postcard (c.1920).jpeg

Niagara Silk Mills Glove Guarantee Card (c.1920).png

Niagara Silk Mills Glove Guarantee Card (c.1920).png

Girls wanted for Van Raalte Company, ad (Tonawanda News, 1920-04-19).jpg

Girls wanted for Van Raalte Company, ad (Tonawanda News, 1920-04-19).jpg

Saja Foo, Niagara Silk Mills model (c1925).jpg

Saja Foo, Niagara Silk Mills model.jpg

Van Raalte, Elks Club, canal from Tonawanda, photo (1925-10-13).jpg

Van Raalte, Elks Club, canal from Tonawanda, photo (1925-10-13).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills model Annette Kellerman, photo (c1930).jpg

Niagara Silk Mills model Annette Kellerman.jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman models silk gloves during wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman models silk gloves during wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman models silk nightgown wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman models silk nightgown wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman with warp holders during wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte Co, woman with warp holders during wartime conversion, photo (LOC 1942).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad (1949).jpg

Van Raalte gloves, color photo ad 3 (1949).jpg

Former site of Niagara Silk Mills (Gateway Center).jpg

Former site of Niagara Silk Mills (Gateway Center).jpg