N & W Overall Company

N & W Overall Company Building
The N & W Overall Company Building in 2016.
N & W Overall Company is located in Mississippi
N & W Overall Company
Location within Mississippi
Location736 S President St., Jackson, Mississippi
Coordinates32°17′33″N 90°10′58″W / 32.29250°N 90.18278°W / 32.29250; -90.18278 (N & W Overall Company Building)
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
NRHP reference No.07001180[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 14, 2007

The N & W Overall Company was a clothing manufacturer in the United States. Their factory building in Jackson, Mississippi is extant and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Completed in 1928, the four-story masonry and brick building has heavy timber framing and plank floors and ceilings. The building was later used by Dickies.[2]

The company was established in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1916. It supplied military uniforms during World War II.[2] It advertised its overalls, shirts, and pants.[3] It advertised its clothes being sanforized and listed manufacturing plants in cities in Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "National register of historic places - Registration form - N & W Overall Company Building" (PDF). www.apps.mdah.ms.gov.
  3. ↑ "Industrial Mississippi 1946: N&W Overall Company". March 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sanforized N&W Work Clothes. Life. 5 April 1954.
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