Keywords: lumber workers
Item 99451
Bangor lumber mill workers, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
Item 29365
Milled lumber piles, Biddeford or Saco, ca. 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"1910Bangor Public Library The Decline of Lumber The lumbering industry of Bangor started to take a decline in the late 1800s."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill
"Many of us followed the workers to the mill and there was John MacGregor, smiling at the door, holding an envelope for each man."
Story
My 41 year career in Maine paper mills
by Mike Luciano
Generations of paper workers, families, immigrants, jobs in the mill, labor strikes, and changes
Story
I work as a Journeyman Mechanic, or Millwright at Catalyst
by Linda Deane
Working on a paper machine and as a Millwright can be challenging as a woman and a Union Rep.
