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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D30926-3
Date(s)
- 1947-12-10 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Hot presses allowed for mass production of exterior plywood panels. The machine was steam powered and could produce many tons of exterior plywood panels per week, these panels were used for prefabricated homes and commercial buildings. View of hot press in use at Oregon-Washington Plywood Company, workman is holding an exterior plywood panel, photo ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association (T. Times, 12/22/47, p. 10).
Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Presses; Equipment; Plywood; Oregon-Washington Plywood Co. (Tacoma); Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);