Women employees of Shane’s uniform department are pictured busily sewing uniforms in the company’s huge plant in 1946. Located on Maryland Street at Buchanan Road, Shane Manufacturing Company, Inc., was founded by Chicago native Norman Shane, Sr., in 1931.
It specialized in textile products, and a uniform division was formed five years later. After the Second World War, Shane supplied washable work garments to Sears, Roebuck & Company and other retailers around the country and overseas.
By the late 1960s, the firm employed nearly a thousand people in four Evansville plants and had offices in New York, Chicago, and other large cities. After Norman Shane’s death in 1974, his company was sold to a textile firm in Florida.
I really enjoy the stories about old Evansville.
My grandmother worked there I think 50s and early 60s
Can you tell me about her experiences because i’m doing a project on this topic and there isn’t much I can’t find online about it.
You may contact Pat Sides at Willard Library.
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i have a m1 carbine carrier stamped SHANE MFG CO 1944 from my Granddaddy + Inland (GM) stamped 6-1944 in my possession.
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