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| Date: | 01 25 1943 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company holds up a structure for it to be photographed. The object is thought to be a prototype... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 03 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military. |
| 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: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | A Consolidated Paper Company employee watches the paper impregnation process whereby the company made a plastic laminate product used in the manufacture of... |
| Date: | 02 06 1943 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company preparing for a strength and deflection test of a plastic product being developed by the co... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of a modular home developed by the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The project was developed in anticipation of the need for ... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 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: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company during World War II. |
| 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... |
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