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$82.50 spent on bedsprings during this year.

$320.15 worth of Mattresses bought in February of this year.

It notes the purchase of $30 of cotton and $112 of duck remnants. These are materials that were used to re-purpose mattresses. This voucher is for July.

Note that they spent $35.48 on "duck remnants", aka duck feathers. Voucher is for March.

Notes moving the mechanical work shops to the valley lying below and easterly from the line of Barnwell street. This matches up with the current location of the Mattress Factory.

$185.85 was spent on mattresses during this year.

There was an additional $32.70 spent on mattresses during this year.

The annual report by Superintendent Coyt Ham illustrates efforts to provide services at both the Columbia campus and the State Park campus. The report also shows an early pastoral education program and prograss on the Church Building Fund.

This annual report explains the Mattress Factory as part of a more simple form of occupational therapy. It names this "industrial therapy".

The Mattress Factory was part of the "Supply Division" during this time. In 1957 it produced 2,476 mattresses and 1,733 mattress covers.