Of Paper and People
- Title
- Of Paper and People
- Date
- 1946
- Description
- More than a mill, more than machines ... more than mortar, bricks, wood, steel and science ... the art of making better paper lies so much in people ... people, whose experience and rare instinctive skill add that part of paper for which no substitute can be found. It is to these people those men and women here at Eastern whose lives have been devoted to up-holding their code of quality that this book is respectfully dedicated.
- Subject
- Eastern Corporation (Bangor, Me.)--History
- Forest products industry--Maine
- Paper industry--Maine
- Paper industry workers--Maine
- Paper mills--Maine
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- Features many photographs of the paper manufacturing process. Several employees are named in the captions.
- The Eastern Corporation owned paper mills in Brewer, Orono and Lincoln, Maine. The company began in the 1880s in Brewer as a sawmill, with a sulfite pulp mill built in 1889 to use waste products from the sawmill. In 1896, the company, now called the Eastern Manufacturing Company, began to make both chemical wood fiber and rag paper at the site, later changing the emphasis to the manufacture of fine business papers. In 1915 the company acquired the Katahdin Pulp and Paper Company in Lincoln and in 1930 purchased the Orono Pulp and Paper Company. In 1939 the company was reorganized as the Eastern Corporation, with executive offices in Bangor and sales offices in Boston, New York, Chicago and Atlanta. Eastern Corporation became the Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of Standard Packaging Corporation in 1958. [Description courtesy Raymond H. Fogler Library, Special Collections, University of Maine].
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