The exterior of the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company building in Olympia, Washington. The two-story building with a flat roof reflects 1950's styling and architecture. A smoke stack with the letters "GP" on it can be seen on the left.

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A stark office in the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company building in Olympia provides desks and equipment for fourteen people. Each desk has been provided with a calculator in the middle of the desk with a waste can to catch the tape as it runs from the machine. Telephones are seen on a few of the desks and most of them also have a typewriter on a pull-out shelf on the left. Florescent lighting provides a bright overhead light. Companies were attempting to apply assembly-line techniques to office work.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Georgia Pacific Plywood Co. (Olympia); Offices--Olympia;

Product testing was constantly occurring at the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company's Olympia offices in the 1950's. Here an employee of the plywood company is carefully pounding in nails around the edges of a square piece of plywood. The nails are of a variety of sizes. The stack of plywood squares remaining indicates that many more tests wait to be completed. The results would be then recorded on the large nearby notepad. Photograph ordered by Georgia Pacific Plywood Co.

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An employee of Georgia Pacific Plywood uses propane to test the durability of the company's plywood at its Olympia laboratory on December 14, 1955. He is not wearing safety goggles or gloves but does have a sturdy apron on. A stopwatch, pencil and notepad are within his reach. A test tube is positioned over a semi-filled flask. Photograph ordered by Georgia Pacific Plywood Co.

Georgia Pacific Plywood Co. (Olympia); Testing--Olympia; Product inspection--Olympia; Test tubes;

The main entrance to the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company building in Olympia is shown on a dark afternoon with the interior lit from several angles. The smooth lines of the exterior of the building are carried into the entry way with a flat covering over the exterior walkway and the interior plywood paneling. The square panes of glass in the door match the geometric shapes of the larger windows and create a rythym with the louvers over the door and the steps inside.

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One of the offices in the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company building in Olympia is shown with a desk with only an ash tray and an organizer on top, with a side-arm for the telephone and typewriter. A machine with a roll-type cover under the windows may be a dictaphone. Venetian blinds and patterned draperies have bee added at the windows.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Georgia Pacific Plywood Co. (Olympia); Offices--Olympia;

Two workmen prepare a plywood wall for papering with a mural map at the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company in Olympia on December 24, 1951. Faint writing on the wall shows instructions for hanging the map. A wooden railing at the staircase on the right bends smoothly to a lower level in the building. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

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A workman is papering a plywood wall at the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company in Olympia with a mural map of the State of Washington. Photograph was taken on Christmas Eve, 1951. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

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Georgia Pacific Plywood warehouse managers' meeting, Feb. 1955, at Olympia, Wa.

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