Rows of hat racks and workstations show the scale of finishing operations at the Lee-McLachlan factory.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Company publication. Do not present management claims about sanitation, efficiency or workers' welfare as independent findings. The digitized copy contains a later inserted Frank H. Lee Co. ownership notice; exact date of that notice is not established. Rendered complete PDF page at 150dpi using Poppler; rotated 90 degrees clockwise for reading; original printed caption retained. No image synthesis or retouching. Visually reviewed complete plate in source page render; manufacturing photograph, not a drawn factory plan. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: public domain; Commons file record identifies copyright status as public domain; title page states 1910–1911, copyright page 1911.
Source: Photographer not identified; David C. Mills, author; Lee-McLachlan Company, publisher / Library of Congress copy digitized by Internet Archive; Wikimedia Commons PDF mirror

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Silent Grounds Collective, Danbury’s Hat & Fur Industry, SGC-CT045-045, ED-IG-DAN-07, “Soft Hat Finishing Room.” Source: Photographer not identified; David C. Mills, author; Lee-McLachlan Company, publisher / Library of Congress copy digitized by Internet Archive; Wikimedia Commons PDF mirror. https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentur00mill. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.
