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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam...
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Consolidated Paper Factory

Date: 1944
Description: Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne...
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Consolidated Paper Machinery

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: A Consolidated Paper Company employee watches the paper impregnation process whereby the company made a plastic laminate product used in the manufacture of...
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Consolidated Paper Company War Work

Date: 03 1944
Description: Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf...
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Gliders for the War

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military.
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Consolidated Paper Company

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Interior view of the factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Two employees, Bob Schutz and Louis Timmerman, watch as rolls of stock are cut five sheets at a time. This procedure was necessary to insure uniformity of...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Strength test being performed by an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The company developed a number of laminated plast...
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War Worker

Date: 04 04 1944
Description: Henry Schmidt, an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company, during World War II.
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World War II Worker

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.
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Consoweld Begins Operations

Date: 1954
Description: Officials of the Consoweld Company (formerly the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company) make a final inspection of the equipment in the new plast...
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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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Wartime Worker

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