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Hickey-Freeman
Copyright Susan Meiselas 2025
Updated Nov 2024
While working on the Magnum Photos project Postcards from America in Rochester, NY, I was drawn to the home of Hickey-Freeman, one of the nation’s oldest and last surviving American men’s clothing manufacturers. For more than one hundred years, the company has drawn on the finest tailors, first from Eastern Europe, then from Italy and Turkey, and now the world. The company has a long-standing history of supporting immigrant workers, through both seeking out master tailors and, more commonly, providing new workers with the skills to do the job.

After hearing about Hickey-Freeman’s new ownership by Tom James and rebranding as Rochester Tailored Clothing, I returned to Rochester to photograph the new factory building and reconnect with the same employees that still work for the company 12 years later with partial support from the EHRP (Economic Hardship Reporting Project.)
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