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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: July 12, 2013
Caption: Welcome to the Collar City! Marker
Additional Description: The large building with the red brick smokestack once housed the Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc., makers of Arrow shirts and collars. Shortly after World War I, inventor Sanford L. Cluett, a nephew of the company owner, determined that shrinkage occurred because shirt fabric which had become stretched in the manufacturing process returned to its normal size after washing. In the 1920s, he developed the "compressive shrinkage process" which became known as "Sanforizing" after its inventor. Cluett, Peabody then licensed the process to the entire textile industry. After the company left Troy in the late 1980s, its factory was transformed into the Headley Park Place office complex. The bridge to the left of the building is the Collar City Bridge, which carries NY Route 7 over the Hudson River.
Submitted: July 18, 2013, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p247845
File Size: 1.280 Megabytes

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