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      While the company's official name at this time was "Penmans Limited", there were inconsistencies in the spelling; "Penman", "Penmans" and "Penman's" were all used interchangeably, though "Penmans" was most common. Signs in this photo use both "Penmans" and "Penman's".

      This 1927 advertising display shows the goods of the Penmans and Watson's clothing companies. According to the back of the photo, the display was in London. The signs in the bottom reads: London Show Room Room 19 Ashplant Bldg. Carling St. [illegible] C.B. LAUR [illegible] 2260

      This 1926 photo shows the Penmans Limited display at the 1926 Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, demonstrating some of the clothing offered that year. The back of the photo includes a crude illustration of a portion of the road along Canada Boulevard at the CNE.

      This photograph depicts the Penmans Limited No. 2 mill, once located on Willow Street. It was taken from across the mill-race, which no longer exists. There is also a possibility that this photo was taken from across the Grand River looking east, with the mouth of the mill race visible …

      This photograph depicts the Penmans Limited No. 2 mill, once located on Willow Street. It appears to have been taken from the nearby Dundas St. bridge. The photo was donated to the museum by Margaret Bailey in June 1990.

      This 1927 photograph depicts the Paris Post Office decorated for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. Both a Ford Model-T and a horse carriage are visible next to each other. This image was printed on the forty-first page of photographs in At the Forks of the Grand: Volume II by D. …

      Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society. Inventory No. 2005.0025.161

      Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society. Inventory No. 1999.0762.01

      Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society. Inventory No. 2006.0068.05

      Inventory No. 2006.0065.17 Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society.

      Inventory No. 2006.0033.15. Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society.

      This photograph depicts a group of Paris Cadets waiting to welcome the train carrying Governor-General Baron Byng and his wife in their visit to Paris on April 9, 1922. At this time, most schoolboys were required to be a member of the cadets. The train station on Broadway Street East …

      This photograph shows the Penmans Limited clothing company's display in Sherbrooke in 1927.

      This ledger documents the chancery sales of Hiram Capron’s lands, spanning a long time period of time from 1848 to 1925. This collection also includes the auction booklet for an 1878 posthumous sale of many of Capron’s lands as 1999.0412.01; it is linked to on the right.

      This photograph depicts a Penmans Limited employee picnic that took place on August 9th, 1924. This photo is Zoomify enabled! Click on the photo to zoom in and pan around so that you can see faces in full detail.

      Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society. Inventory No. 2005.0021.03

      This photograph depicts the Paris High School girls' track team of 1929. D.A. Smith notes that six of the women depicted are defying the dress code of long black stockings. For a list of the names of the persons in this photograph, see the inscription. This image was printed on …

      This photograph depicts the staff and students of Paris High School in 1925. The staff depicted are Rachel Wood, Carolyn Vrooman, Florence Rodman, and Principal William A. Glass. D.A. Smith dates the photo to 1923 and the location as the old high school, although the original caption on the photograph …

      This 1923 pamphlet was created in order to attract workers to Paris in order to work for the Penmans Limited knitting mill. At this time, Penmans advertised and recruited widely in order to attract workers, primarily, women, from Canada and from Great Britain, whom they would bring to Paris in …