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| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 12 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the glider being developed for the military by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company. |
| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Alternate view of the glider being developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company of Wisconsin Rapids for the military. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating routers, drill presses, and other equipment used in the fabrication of t... |
| Date: | 04 22 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 07 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Glider floor constructed of a paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids during ... |
| Date: | 12 1943 |
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| Description: | A photograph of what is thought to be a prototype glider part developed by the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 08 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Photograph of work done by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids in the development of paper-based plastic laminate duri... |
| Date: | 04 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids contemplates a die for fabricating tapered paper-based plastic laminat... |
| Date: | 04 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Plastic laminate development work. This may be a die for fabricating tapered panels. |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Ken Nelson, an employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids, monitors the performance of the #1 Treater. The machi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
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