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Factory Built Housing

Date: 03 08 1946
Description: Employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company shingle a roof in a factory. The roof was then taken to the building site for final assem...
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Modular Housing

Date: 03 11 1946
Description: A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division...
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Post-World War II Housing

Date: 03 11 1946
Description: Concrete block basement for a factory-built house in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a product of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, and it was ...
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Paper-Making Equipment

Date: 06 15 1944
Description: Paper manufacturing equipment of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Laboratory development of a paper-based plastic laminate product by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, during World War II. The product was used ...
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War Work

Date: 10 12 1943
Description: Earl Otto, an executive of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, takes a turn during the machine gun test of the laminate plastic panels being devel...
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Office Workers

Date: 12 16 1943
Description: Office workers of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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Gliders for the War

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Close-up of the glider being developed for the military by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company.
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Gliders for the War

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Alternate view of the glider being developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company of Wisconsin Rapids for the military.
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Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
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Consoweld Office

Date: 04 1955
Description: Consoweld Company employees shortly after moving into the new company building. It is likely the desk tops are made from a Consoweld plastic laminate produ...
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Women War Workers

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Women employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company performing an early layup operation, a part of the process whereby the company made ...
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Plastics Factory

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Factory of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company, showing several of the early laminate presses used for its World War II military production...
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Consolidated Paper Factory

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Office building and factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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Consolidated Paper Factory

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating the use of two pieces of equipment used in cutting the paper-based laminate ...
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Consolidated Paper Company War Work

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating routers, drill presses, and other equipment used in the fabrication of t...
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Gisholt Factory

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Description: Employee of the Gisholt Company of Madison demonstrating a plastic laminate drill jig manufactured by the Consoweld Company of Wisconsin Rapids.
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Plastic Laminate

Date: 04 22 1944
Description: Three employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company pose with two sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate that the company manufa...
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Sorting Laminate

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Description: Bill Hardina and Tony Kissner, two employees of the Plastic Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids, handling large sheets of the paper-based p...
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Plastics Workers

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Description: Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids and a large sheet of the paper-based plastic laminate manufacture...

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