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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Plastics Workers
Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids and a large sheet of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the company.
Plastic Laminate
April 22, 1944
Three employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company pose with two sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate that the company manufactured for various products during World W...
Laminate Plastic Development
April 22, 1944
Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids contemplates a die for fabricating tapered paper-based plastic laminate for military purposes.
Sorting Laminate
Bill Hardina and Tony Kissner, two employees of the Plastic Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids, handling large sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the company.
Consolidated Paper Company War Work
June 14, 1944
Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating routers, drill presses, and other equipment used in the fabrication of the paper-based plastic laminate the compan...
Women War Workers
June 14, 1944
Women employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company performing an early layup operation, a part of the process whereby the company made paper-based plastic laminates for the mili...
