Contributed by Yarmouth Historical Society
Description
Twenty-eight employees of the Forest Paper Co. in Yarmouth pose in front of a large pile of poplar wood that rail cars delivered for the soda pulp process at the mill.
During the Yarmouth mill's most prosperous years, the company employed upwards of 250 men and had a payroll of $150,000.
About This Item
- Title: Forest Paper Co. workers, Yarmouth, ca. 1890
- Creation Date: circa 1890
- Subject Date: circa 1890
- Location: Third Falls, Yarmouth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
- Local Code: 1997.46.9
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Group portraits
- Poplar--Maine
- Employees
- Paper industry
- Sawmills--Maine--Yarmouth
- Pulp industry
- Lumber industry--Maine--Yarmouth
- Logyards--Maine--Yarmouth
- Forest Paper Company (Yarmouth, Me.)
- Laborers
People
Other Keywords
- Black Ash
- boiler
- cart
- Elm Street
- forest
- machine
- mills
- paper
- poplar
- pulp
- Royal River
- soda
- soot
- tracks
- trains
- trestles
- wood
For more information about this item, contact:
Yarmouth Historical Society118 East Elm St., PO Box 107, Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-6259
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