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This is an advertisement for a Stetson Field Corps performance.

This is an advertisement for Stetson Fall hat styles.

This is a Stetson hat advertisement promising that material shortages during World War I would not affect the quality of Stetson hats.

This is an article about the different gifts that Stetson distributed to its workers for Christmas.

This is an article about the valuable gifts that Stetson distributed to its workers for Christmas.

One of the Stetson buildings; this is where the company screened movies for the employees and their families.

Interior of the abandoned Stetson Hat Company factory, which closed in 1971.

Silk bands and bindings were made in the Weaving Department of the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia. The department created seven million yards of bands, bindings, and braids annually.

The edges of certain Stetson hats get curled at the Flanging Department of the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia. The edges of the hats are dampened then curled with a heated iron. It is placed on a hollow wooden form under a hugh [sic] bag of…

Sizing is systematic shrinking of the formed hat bodies to proper size. In the Sizing Department of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, the bodies are repeatedly dipped in hot water, which causes the fur fibers to shrink and knit closely.…