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= Underhill Manufacturing Company = The Underhill Manufacturing Company was one of the largest manufacturers of workwear and denim clothes in North America. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1893 by Townsend J. Underhill. Under the management of the Bayly family, operations expanded to California, Washington, Utah and Texas in the twentieth century.

Early history
Townsend J. Underhill started producing working clothes in Denver with the idea “that Western working people would give favor to working garments, of honest excellence, produced in the West by other Western working people and that Western merchants would give welcome to such goods in their stocks.”

The factory that by then had grown into an operation with nearly 200 employees when Underhill died in 1900.1 The brothers Charles and William Bayly, who had made their fortune with the sale of the Tomboy goldmine and a chain of hardware stores, bought the company from his widow and incorporated the Underhill Manufacturing Company in December 1900.

The business kept growing as Underhill products were soon sold in eleven western states. In 1912 the company moved into a new factory in downtown Denver that remained the company's headquarters for decades.

The company was later passed down to Charles Bayly Jr. and his brother Randall Bayly. They started manufacturing clothes for the American Navy and Army throughout the 20th century.

Working conditions
Underhill was the first company in its industry to sign union contracts for all employees and one of the first to bear union labels in its clothes. Workers in the factory in Denver alone composed an entire lodge of the United Garment Workers of America.

The company headquarters built in 1912 on Denver’s Arapahoe street was designed to meet the latest requirements for healthy working conditions.