July 1928
This is a 1928 employee newsletter from the Biddeford Mills in Biddeford, Maine, a textile manufacturer making Pepperell sheets, written for its own workers and their families. The photographs are small halftone portraits of workers in plain work clothes and a child with a doll, captioned with names and service notes, showing the everyday people of a mill town. A designer could draw on their unposed, documentary feel for period portraiture, workwear styling, and small-town mid-century nostalgia.
