Contributed by Yarmouth Historical Society
Description
Workers on rotating shifts produced soda pulp for making paper 24 hours a day.
The process included slicing poplar logs into small chips that were put into large digesters that pressure cooked them. Soda or lye was added at high heat to reduce the chips to pulp. The pulp was then strained or dried and sent off to papermakers all over the world.
About This Item
- Title: Forest Paper Co. smokestacks, Yarmouth, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Third Falls, Yarmouth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: 1995.71.20
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Pulp mills--Maine--Yarmouth
- Lumber industry--Maine--Yarmouth
- Forest Paper Company (Yarmouth, Me.)
- Paper industry--Maine--Yarmouth
- Sawmills--Maine--Yarmouth
Other Keywords
- Black Ash
- boiler
- business
- cart
- chimney
- Elm Street
- forest
- machine
- mills
- office
- 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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