This is the packing line at Lederle Labs in Pearl River circa 1950's. The workers are all women and dressed in white dresses, with aprons and hair nets. Cardboard boxes are lined up on the machinery near the ceiling.
In 1906, Dr. Ernst Lederle brought biological production to this Pearl River homestead - a farmhouse built in 1798. Buildings have changed from cottages, stalls, and wood barracks to acres of ceramic-walled packing and filling rooms and hundreds of...
This brick mill building is one of a few surviving industrial sites in the Village of Nyack. Shoes were made here. There is an extensive history in the 1988-89 Neiweg and Reimann "Survey of Historic Buildings Village of Nyack, New York," pp. 1 and ...