ca. 1953. Riegel Carolina Paper & Pulp Mill, Acme, N. Carolina. Ordered by General Electric. Mountains of timber piled up for processing into paper and pulp. What appears to be a long conveyer belt carries the timber into the mill. Hoisting machinery available for lifting the timber onto the belt.

Riegel Carolina (Acme, N.C.); Mills--North Carolina--Acme; Factories--North Carolina--Acme; Paper industry--North Carolina--Acme; Industrial facilities--North Carolina--Acme;

This exterior view of a St. Regis Paper Co. plant, possibly Tacoma's, was taken on July 3, 1953, at the request of the Johns-Manville Sales Corporation. Johns-Manville handled asbestos products; it could be that the exterior of the building has asbestos siding. Johns-Manville's Tacoma office was located at 680 E. 11th St. in the Tideflats area; they were a nationwide company established in the mid-1850's.

Johns-Manville Sales Corp.; St. Regis Paper Co.; Industrial facilities;

Exterior of industrial facilities. This is possibly the Tacoma location of St. Regis Paper Co. in a photograph taken on July 3, 1953. The multi-storied buildings appear to have siding rather than brick or concrete block. The photograph, one of several, was taken at the request of the Johns-Manville Sales Corporation which sold asbestos products. It is possible that the siding on the buildings had an asbestos content.

Johns-Manville Sales Corp.; St. Regis Paper Co.; Industrial facilities;

ca. 1953. A P & H crane operator maneuvers his winch to gather logs, possibly to drop them in the log storage pile beside him. This photograph was possibly taken in 1953, perhaps at one of St. Regis Paper Co.'s facilities. St. Regis had plants and mills all over the country, including the southern United States, as well as in Canada and South America.

Paper industry; Logs; Hoisting machinery;

Interior of St. Regis plant. The kraft and pulp mill in Jacksonville, Florida, started production in January, 1953. Corrugating and liner boards were part of its output. Skilled workers were needed to run and maintain the equipment; an employee is photographed in July, 1953, possibly oiling a piece of machinery. Huge cylinder-shaped structures, possibly holding tanks, surround the worker. Photograph ordered by Stebbins Engineering & Manufacturing Co.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Jacksonville, Fl.)--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Jacksonville--1950-1960;

ca. 1953. An immense pile of logs, many feet higher than the sturdy Chevrolet and Ford trucks beside it, remains to be loaded for delivery to the Jacksonville, Florida, St. Regis Paper Co. plant in 1953. Workers have begun to stack the logs on truck beds. Unlike the Tacoma plant who utilized log dumps in the Milwaukee Waterway, the Florida plant apparently utilized a pulpwood storage yard at its new kraft mill. The barking plant handled up to 650 cords per day of pine logs from Florida and Georgia; these cords would be consumed by the mill in producing 300-400 tons of kraft paper or boards per day. (1953 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 11)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Jacksonville, Fl.)--1950-1960; Paper industry--Jacksonville--1950-1960; Logs; Chevrolet trucks; Ford trucks;

Interior view of St. Regis. This photograph, taken on July 3, 1953, is probably the interior of the Tacoma St. Regis plant. Production in the pulp and paper industry, of which St. Regis was a major player, hit a new high of over 26 million tons of paper and paperboard during 1953. St. Regis' mills and plants nationwide operated at or near full capacity. Sales increased 10% over 1952. Photograph ordered by Ederer Engineering Co. of Seattle, manufacturers of cranes and hoisting machinery. One of their cranes is apparently being readied to be utilized in moving large roll of possibly kraft paper. (1953 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 3)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1950-1960; Hoisting machinery; Ederer Engineering Co. (Seattle);

A shirtless St. Regis Paper Co. employee clenches his gloved fists around the link belts dangling from the Yale Spur Geared Block while his co-worker stands to the rear keeping an eye on the chains. Although the men are wearing gloves and possibly steel-toed shoes, no other safety equipment appears present. Photograph was ordered by Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. and taken on June 27, 1953.

St. Regis Paper Co.; Hoisting machinery; Chains;

A Link Belt unit on wheels with Yale Spur Geared Block is being maneuvered by two employees of St. Regis Paper Co. on June 27, 1953. Each is holding onto the chains that suspend the long roller. Photograph ordered by Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.

St. Regis Paper Co.; Hoisting machinery; Chains;

The "Seaboard" pulls up next to a St. Regis Paper Co. plant, possibly located in Tacoma, in July, 1953. #1733 apparently has several tanks in tow. There are additional tanks, sans train, on an adjacent track. Photograph ordered by Johns-Manville Sales Corporation.

St. Regis Paper Co.; Railroads; Railroad tracks;

ca. 1955. Two tall brick storage tanks appear as stark monoliths against the hazy blue skies in Acme, North Carolina. These were part of the Riegel Carolina Paper Co.'s plant. Railroad cars are in the photo's background; Riegel Paper apparently had easy rail access for transporting their paper products. Photograph ordered by Stebbins Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Seattle.

Riegel Carolina (Acme, N.C.); Paper industry--North Carolina--Acme; Industrial facilities--North Carolina--Acme; Storage tanks; Stebbins Engineering & Manufacturing Co. (Seattle);

R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie. This is possibly the office for the paper company. As of 1965, the company was still operating in Longview and making specialty, such as waxed, papers.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960;

Pulp manufacturing process at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie. The workers seems diminutive next to the vast circular vats filled with pulp. In the pulp making process, chemicals are used to separate the wood fibers from the lignin that binds it together. The fibers are then bleached and sent through the paper machine for sheeting and drying.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960;

Paper quality control testing at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Two white coated lab technicians work in the lab performing tests. Tests are performed on the finished product for water content, smoothness, weight, color, resistance and opacity. Photographs ordered by Malcolm McGhie.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960; Product inspection--Longview; Testing--Longview;

Paper quality control testing at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Two technicians in white lab coats perform tests on samples. The man on the right, hands on the controls of the meter, is measuring a quality of the paper square weighted down by the cylinder. The technician on the left is weighing a substance in a glass bottle. Both men jot down their findings in the open ledgers beside them. Photographs ordered by Malcolm McGhie.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960; Product inspection--Longview; Testing--Longview;

Pulp manufacturing machinery at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie. Two building engineers work on a piece of machinery. Modern paper machines can produce hundreds of tons of paper each day. Approximately 15 % of our national supply of pulp is manufactured in Oregon and Washington.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960;

Pulp manufacturing machinery at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie. Vats of pulp dwarf the worker at the bottom center of the picture. The pulp fiber, after being extracted from the wood by a chemical process, is about 99 per cent water. The water is removed by pressure and suction being applied to the mixture. The resulting sheet then moves on to the drying machine.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960;

Pulp manufacturing machinery at R.W. Paper Co. in Longview, Wa. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie. This picture shows a paper machine. When the pulp mixture arrives at the paper machine headbox, its water content is over 99%. The mixture is sent under pressure onto an immense moving canvas. The action of the canvas and a suction system extract most of the water in the pulp and form a sheet. The sheet then moves onto the drying section where it comes in contact with steam heated cylinders that dry it to the desired degree.

R. W. Paper Co. (Longview); Paper industry--Longview--1950-1960;

Exterior of Blake, Moffitt & Towne building. By June, 1954, the Blake, Moffitt & Towne Co. had moved to its new location of 1157 Thorne Rd. in the Tideflats area. The business was now close to E. 11th and the Port of Tacoma Road; railroad tracks shown in the above picture indicated that their products could be conveniently shipped either by rail as well as by truck. The building would encompass 40,000 square feet for warehouse and office space. It was built on a 3 1/2 acre tract to allow for plenty of customer parking as well as possible future expansion. Blake, Moffitt & Towne were wholesale distributors of printing and wrapping paper and stationery and were formerly located on Jefferson Avenue. Arthur W. Towne was listed in the 1954 City Directory as president with Lyman V. Hall as Vice-president/Manager and Richard A. Meyer as Secretary Treasurer/Office Manager. (TNT 7-18-54, C-15)

Blake, Moffitt & Towne, Inc. (Tacoma); Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Railroad tracks--Tacoma--1950-1960;

St. Regis Paper Co. at night with lighted Christmas display on top of building. Union Oil and its tanks with the famous 76 logo are in the right foreground on the City (now Foss) Waterway.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Christmas decorations; Union Oil Co. of California (Tacoma);

Seven men and women are operating machinery at St. Regis Paper Company's new bag plant. Rolls of brown paper are seen on the far right. The paper is fed into folding machines which eject the multiple-layer tubes onto a conveyor belt on the left. Here women are removing and stacking the brown paper tubes ready for the next operation in completing the bags, sewing the ends closed.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Mills--Tacoma--1950-1960; Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Exterior of St. Regis Paper Company's new bag plant on the Tacoma tideflats with Tacoma in the background.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Mills--Tacoma--1950-1960; Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Three men, employees of St. Regis Paper Co., stand before part of the company's Mineral-Morton tree operations, in this July, 1962, photograph. The man in the center is G. Boyce Wadsworth who would retire in the mid-80s as Logging Superintendent and the man on the far right is believed to be Robert L. Martin, St. Regis' logging and forestry manager. A snow-capped Mount Rainier looms in the background. Logs harvested from this area would be sent to Tacoma for processing. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. (Wadsworth identification supplied by viewer)

Forests; Firs; Mountains--Washington--1960-1970; St. Regis Paper Co. (Mineral); Wadsworth, G. Boyce;

Truck #520 is loaded with logs and on its way to St. Regis' Tacoma plant in July, 1962. The harvested logs were taken from the company's tree farms in the Mineral-Morton area. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. This picture was used in the St. Regis Paper Co.'s 1962 Annual Report. (1962 St. Regis Paper Co. Annual Report, p. 25)

Trucks--1960-1970; Logs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Mineral);

Log stacker in action at St. Regis dry-land log-sorting and storage yard, November, 1965. 1965 saw the completion of several modernization projects for St. Regis Paper Co. A 15-acre log-sorting and storage yard was established on part of 35-acres newly created by the filling in of a saltwater log pond. This would prove to be more efficient than log ponds and booming grounds. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. (1965 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 12-13)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Logs; Hoisting machinery;

August, 1960, progress photographs of St. Regis Paper Co. mill ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. View of portion of St. Regis Paper Co. plant in the Tideflats including stacks of logs piled adjacent to railroad tracks. Cylinder-shaped structure is probably the new continuous digester which was expected to increase capacity by 325 tons per day. The tower is 110 feet high. Capital expenditures for 1960 & 1961 included $20,893,881 for the Kraft mill expansion of St. Regis' Tacoma plant. This amount, by far, was the highest budgeted for those years and accounted for over one-third of the money planned for new construction and plant improvement. The addition to the Tacoma mill was made to permit St. Regis to furnish a larger part of the needs of the company's own box plants and bag factories in the western and midwest states. (1960 Annual report, p. 3, 6, TNT 11-13-60, A-18)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Progress photographs; Logs; Machinery;

View of enlarged machine room in the St. Regis Paper Co.'s kraft paper and board mill on November 28, 1960. This progress photograph was taken on behalf of Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant from New York City, for possible use in St. Regis' 1960 Annual report. A new paper machine was being erected in 1960 which would increase and diversify Tacoma's paper and board capacity. (St. Regis 1960 Annual Report, p. 7)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Progress photographs; Machinery;

An employee of St. Regis Paper Co. is shown on January 18, 1967, turning the knobs on a new IBM 360 computer system at the firm's data-processing center. She is using an IBM instructional manual. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Paper industry--Tacoma--1960-1970; Computers; Office workers--Tacoma--1960-1970;

October, 1967, scenes from Potlatch Forest Industries' Lewiston, Idaho, plant. Potlatch workers spread thin sheets of plywood onto an enormous round table. Carts containing more plywood encircle the table. A veneer dryer is situated near the right wall of the plant. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for Potlatch Forest Industries' 1967 annual report.

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Plywood;

ca. 1961. A Hyster lift truck loads lumber for shipment at the Klickitat, Washington, sawmill. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway car is nearly full. The St. Regis Klickitat mill produces ponderosa pine exclusively. Ponderosa pine was an extremely versatile softwood, noted for its smoothness and fine appearance. It was used for millwork, interior finish, and residential and light commercial buildings. This picture was used in the 1961 St. Regis annual report. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant. (1961 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 20)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Klickitat); Lumber industry--Klickitat; Railroad freight cars--Klickitat;