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Consolidated Paper Glider Floor

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin...
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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 War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An employee of the Consolidated Paper Company watches what is apparently a test of a part being manufactured by the company as part of its contract to deve...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Carl Husome, an employee of the Consolidated Paper Company in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of a prototype for a m...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company (Del Rowland and Carl Husome), in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of...
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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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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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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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Paper-Making Equipment

Date: 06 15 1944
Description: Paper manufacturing equipment of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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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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Plastics Workers

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Description: Workers at the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids handling sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by...
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Prototype Plastic Glider

Date: 05 07 1943
Description: Floor for a military glider constructed of a paper-based plastic laminate by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids. This photog...
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Plastics Laboratory

Date: 08 10 1944
Description: Laboratory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids. The man on the left has been identified as chemist Jay Somers, ...

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