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Wolf River Paper & Fiber Company

Date: 1904
Description: Text on the front reads: "Wolf River Paper & Fiber Co., Shawano, Wis." Industrial buildings with a millpond in the foreground. The mill was founded in 1894...
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Paper Converting

Date: 1952
Description: Interior view of the Bay West Paper Company with paper converting machinery. Men in uniform are running the equipment.
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Cellucotton Processing Machine

Date: 1922
Description: View towards a man in coveralls standing on a wooden platform operating a cellucotton processing machine.
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Kimberly Clark Calendering Machine

Date: 03 30 1933
Description: Elevated view of unidentified workmen standing at each of the six calendering machines, each with their hand on the final roll of paper. In the background ...
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Moving Paper

Date: 1930
Description: Two men are moving a large roll of paper with the help of an overhead pulley.
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Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co.

Date: 1963
Description: Slightly elevated view of the stockroom (?) of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co.
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C.W.P. Company

Date: 1927
Description: Elevated view over dam of the site of the Cornell Wood Products Company. On the opposite shoreline is a pulpwood stacker, tall smokestack, water tower, and...
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C.W.P. Company

Date: 1927
Description: View across lower section of dam at Cornell Wood Products Company. In the background are factory buildings, a tall smokestack, and a water tower.
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Pulpwood

Date: 1936
Description: View from river of a machine/crane moving bundles of pulpwood to be made into paper.
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Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company

Date: 
Description: Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory.
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Forest Nursery

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
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Worker Transports Large Drums with International I-12 Powered Fork-Lift

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Worker Harry Straka transporting two large drums of paper with an International I-12 powered fork-lift at Oceanic Terminals wharf. The fork-lift was one of...
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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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Wartime Worker

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

Date: 1943
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company prepares for a strength test of a product being developed by the compan...
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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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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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E.J. Graff Hauling Trucks

Date: 03 30 1925
Description: Men remove stacks of cardboard from the back of a Model 103 International truck at the loading dock of E.J. Graff. Another truck is parked in the backgroun...
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Great Northern Paper Company

Date: 1930
Description: Two men sit on a roller near a large paper machine at Great Northern Paper Company, which was incorporated in 1898 and soon became one of the largest Ameri...
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Factory Scene

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Description: Scene in a factory of the Consolidated Papers Company.

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