Joan and all - I have a quilt pieced from scraps taken from a shirt factory. My aunt Anna Bellis Nelson did the work. Hope you'll email the list with the results of your search. I'd like to add the history to my database. Thanks, Karen Nelson Hangsleben ---------- From: Joan[SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] shirt factory Greetings from Streator, I have having a mental block right now, and all I can remember is "Paris Garter". But there were others. My Mom worked at the pants factory in the 1930s and my neighbor was forelady there until she retired. They made special items. Used to talk about sending the suits back to New York, so the "tailor" could call his customers in for a final fitting. Customers would think that the suits were being made there by "expert tailors" (read expensive), when they were really made in Streator. What were your grandparents names, I can go to the museum and check the city directory for those years. Joanie Jane Westerkamm wrote: > > My Grandmother worked at a shirt factory in Streator during the years > 1918-1920, after her husband died. Can anyone on this list tell me > the name of this factory and where it would have been located in > Streator? Thanks for any help. Jane > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237