Name/Title
Postcard, Bear Brand Knitting CoDescription
Bear Brand Knitting Co. This is a postcard showing the Bear Brand Knitting Co. building in Waupun.
1927: The Bear Brand Hosiery Company operated two large mills with a daily output of 1,400 dozen pairs of hosiery per day. This output consisted almost entirely of ladies silk hosiery. The plant was under the supervision on L.A. Smith. The Bear Brand Company closed the Waupun factories in the early 1930s. The city took over the factory building in 1934, and arranged with the Mid-State Shoe Company of Milwaukee to locate a branch factory in it, which is called the Ideal Shoe Company. The plant employed about 350 people and was managed by G.F. Ibach
The lettering on the building says: Bear Brand Hosiery Co. Mill No. 4Acquisition
Accession
2001.0002Source or Donor
Waupun Historical SocietyAcquisition Method
Bequest,Collected by