Aetna Hosiery Mills

AETNA HOSIERY MILLS,
Manufacturers of Knit Underwear
76 to 86 Second Avenue
Lansingburgh.

The Aetna Hosiery Mills, erected in 1881, have since enjoyed an unbroken career of growth and progress, and rank to-day with the most famous in this section. Under the experienced and enterprising direction of the proprietor and founder of the business, Mr. William A. Harder, the products of the AEtna Hosiery Mills have made a high reputation in the market for superiority, and are in demand by the trade throughout all parts of the United States. The manufacturing plant is a large and complete one, is substantially constructed of brick, and is fully equipped with all the latest improved machinery known to the trade, operated by steam power, and furnishing employment to about three hundred skilled operatives. Not withstanding the extent of the facilities, however, they have proved inadequate to meet the growing trade of the mills, and will shortly be materially enlarged by the addition of new buildings and machinery. The products of the AEtna Hosiery Mills comprise a general line of fine wool and merino shirts and drawers, and a specialty is also made of the manufacture of the Harder fold hygienic underwear, which has become recognized as the most healthful underwear in the market. It contains all the sanitary qualities found in any other similar goods, and at the same time it is furnished to the trade and by them distributed to consumers at much lower prices than are demanded for many other brands of hygienic underwear that possess no other nor greater merits. The garments are perfect-fitting and finely finished, and wherever introduced are in annually increasing demand. Mr. Harder is a practical and experienced manufacturer and gives his close personal attention to all the details of production. He is a progressive business man, ambitious to excel in accommodations to the trade, and has done his full share in the development of the great knit underwear industry of the Empire State.Citizens' Association of Troy.
The Industrial Advantages of Troy and Its Environs, Cohoes, Waterford, Lansingburgh, Green Island and West Troy. Rochester, NY: James P. McKinney, 1895. 47.