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;

Several men are adjusting the printing machinery at St. Regis Paper Company's new bag plant. Bags were printed in the shop before being made into bags. A man on the right end checks the printing. Two other men further to the right are checking that the rolls of paper are feeding smoothly.

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

Four people work along side the folding machines at St. Regis Paper Company's new bag plant tending the machines and gathering the sacks to stack.

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

An aerial photograph taken in April, 1954, shows smoke billowing from the St. Regis Paper Co. facilities on the tideflats. The wide building to the right is the company's multi-wall bag plant built a few years prior; the narrow building to its rear is the kraft-pulp division. Logs are massed together in the log dump nearby.

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

Link Belt equipment at St. Regis. The large rolls of paper are moved by a conveyer belt arrangement made up of lots of little rollers. It appears that the rolls of paper are rolled onto the belt when flat. The belt then uprights the paper and transports it. One man operates the machinery, while another stands to the rear with 2 more rolls of paper for loading.

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

ca. 1961. Customer print of aerial view of St. Regis Paper Co. plant and looming Mount Rainier, ca. 1961. By 1961, St. Regis was one of the most widely diversified manufacturers of paper and packaging. It had 111 mills, converting and manufacturing plants and was the only company with mills in all paper-making areas of the country. Tacoma had a new kraft paper and paperboard machine that went into production in 1961. The machine's rated capacity was 400 tons a day and it made a sheet over 20 feet wide. The kraft machine was a major element in a substantial program of expansion and modernization that had been going on in Tacoma for more than two years. (1961 St. Regis Annual Report)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Paper industry--Tacoma--1960-1970; Factories--Tacoma--1960-1970; Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

A view of the interior of the kraft paper mill at St. Regis Paper Company. The new high speed kraft paper machine was designed to operate at 2000 feet per minute and produce paper nearly fourteen feet wide (166 inches). It started operation January 5, 1949. The Poodle Dog Restaurant in Fife, Washington, had a large display of local points of interest on one of their walls. Copy of customer's negative for Poodle Dog enlargement. (St. Regis Paper Company Annual Report for 1949)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Poodle Dog (Fife); Mills--Tacoma--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

July, 1961, saw the installation of a Fibre Making Processes, Inc., barking drum at the Tacoma St. Regis Paper Co. plant. The 12' x 67.5' drum tumbles logs or billets by mechanical rotation which strips the bark using abrasive action. Photograph ordered by Fibre Making Processes, Inc., Chicago, IL.

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

View of bark conveyer at St. Regis' Tacoma plant. One small log is resting on side of conveyer belt. Fibre Making Processes, Inc., had its 12 foot barking drum installed in early July, 1961. Photograph ordered by Fibre Making Processes, Inc., Chicago.

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

The discharge end of a new Fibre Making Processes, Inc., barking drum with view of discharge gate and cut small logs; barking drum located at St. Regis Paper Co.'s Tacoma plant. The bark would be removed by abrasive action of the rotating mechanical drum. Photograph ordered by Fibre Making Processes, Inc., Chicago.

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

St. Regis Paper Co. employee leans over a Langston machine on September 29, 1961. Man appears to be working with small roll of kraft paper. The Samuel M. Langston Co. made machines, basically rewinders, for the corrugated container industry. Based in Camden, N.J., they were in operations for more than one hundred years. Photograph ordered by the Samuel Langston Co.

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

Western Gear Corporation of Seattle installed new machinery at St. Regis Paper Co. Tacoma plant on October 13, 1961. View of machine with mountain of pulp-mill chips in background. The kraft mill stored outdoors piles of the chips, most of them purchased from local plywood and sawmills.

Machinery; Western Gear Corp. (Seattle); St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Paper industry--Tacoma--1960-1970;

This aerial view of St. Regis Paper Company's chip operations was taken in mid-September of 1964. A barge marked "Vancouver Tug" unloads tons of pulp-mill chips at the Tacoma kraft mill of St. Regis Paper. Two large mountains of chips are in storage outside side-by-side. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Aerial photographs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Paper industry--Tacoma--1960-1970; Barges--Canada--Vancouver;

St. Regis Paper Co. president and CEO William R. Adams stands next to enormous rolls of (kraft) paper on June 15, 1965, during a visit to the company's Tacoma plant. Adams, of New York, was in Tacoma along with Chrm. of the Board Roy Ferguson for dedication ceremonies commemorating the grand opening of the company's new $5,000,000 veneer plant and studmill. He would speak to 400 invited guests at a luncheon held at the plant site. Photograph ordered by St. Regis Paper Co., New York. (TNT 6-16-65, p. 1)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Adams, William R.;

Informal portrait of St. Regis Paper Co. president and CEO, William R. Adams. Mr. Adams paid a visit to the company's Tacoma plant in mid-June, 1965. He stands with his arms crossed near rolls of (kraft) paper. He and Chairman of the Board Roy Ferguson were present for the dedication of St. Regis' new veneer plant and studmill. The new studmill had an annual capacity of 40 million board feet. The veneer plant used peeler logs for its plywood plants in Tacoma and Olympia. Photograph ordered by St. Regis Paper Co., New York. (TNT 6-16-65, p. 1)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1960-1970; Adams, William R.;

1973 Richards stock footage. Aerial view in July of 1973 of the St. Regis Paper Co. The Puyallup Waterway is directly behind the plant. Due to St. Regis' vigorous efforts to curtail pollution, there is no sign of the plant's usual massive smoke emissions. TPL-5484

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1970-1980; Aerial views; Puyallup Waterway (Tacoma);

ca. 1973. 1973 Richards stock footage. Aerial photograph, probably taken in the fall of 1973, of the St. Regis Paper Co. The plant, the county's largest non-military employer, was located between the Puyallup and St. Paul Waterways. St. Regis would be acquired by Champion International Corp. in 1984 and subsequently sold to Simpson Tacoma Kraft the following year. Simpson Tacoma Kraft still maintains the plant in 2007.

Aerial views; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1970-1980; Puyallup Waterway (Tacoma); St. Paul Waterway (Tacoma);

St. Regis office, Times, Maybin. St. Regis was planning immediate construction of $6 million kraft paper and bag mills. These three key men, studying plans for the construction, are, L-R, J.H. McCarthy, plant engineer, Walter DeLong, Vice President and director, manager of Tacoma operations, and Adolph C. McCorry, plant superintendent. Piles of logs and a water tower are seen outside the windows. St. Regis had been at this location since 1936. (T.Times, 8/21/1947, p.1)

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On spec. for the Times, Labor Day. Interior views of the St. Regis Paper Company. William Youngchild, a veteran Tacoma papermaker with 55 years in the industry, watches rolls of pulp in one of the final processes at St. Regis mill.

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On spec. for the Times, Labor Day. Interior views of the St. Regis Paper Company. As of January 1947 St. Regis Paper Company used up to 17 million gallons of water a day in its pulp processing. The plant had many miles of piping throughout all of its processes. In December 1946 a paper machine was installed.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In this aerial view of the Tacoma tideflats the St. Regis Paper Company can be found at the base of the large plume of smoke and steam in the center of the picture. The St. Regis Paper Company was established in Tacoma in 1928 and rebuilt and modernized in 1936. In August 1947 the company announced plans for a $6 million addition of a Kraft paper mill and multi wall bag plant, to be operational the first quarter of 1949.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Aerial photographs; Tacoma Tideflats (Tacoma);

In August of 1947 an unidentified "boom man", wearing "corked" boots and wielding a pikepole, was photographed sorting logs for the St. Regis Paper Company. St. Regis was established in Tacoma in 1928 and rebuilt and modernized in 1936. In August 1947 the company announced plans for a $6 million addition of a Kraft paper mill and a multi-wall bag plant. Simpson Tacoma Kraft took over the St. Regis mill in Tacoma in 1985. (On spec. for the Times, Labor Day.) TPL-9492

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commencement Bay (Wash.); Logs;

On spec. for the Times, Labor Day. Interior view of the St. Regis Paper Company. From the woodroom chunks of wood were moved to wood chippers where they were broken into fine chips. These went into a hopper in the top of a digester where the chips were broken down by chemicals and the resulting pulp was washed and bleached, looking much like white snow. The paper would be nearly all water at this part of the process. It was sprayed in a thin sheet on screens where it was gradually dried out over a long roller.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

On spec. for the Times, Labor Day. Interior views of the St. Regis Paper Company. The paper machine had variable speeds from 450 - 2,100 feet per minute according to the kind of paper being made. St. Regis expected the new paper machine to run at a rate of 2,000 feet per minute and to be capable of producing 240 tons of paper per day.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery;

Interior views of the St. Regis Paper Company where pulp is being dried further (steam is coming off as the pulp goes through the roller at the rear) and looks more like paper. St. Regis Paper Company, a national company, had seven mills throughout the country and also had extensive timber holdings in the Pacific Northwest and in other locations in the United States. On spec. for the Times, Labor Day. TPL-3765

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery;

St. Regis Company announced that major plant reconditioning and expansions would begin. This will help reduce the levels of air pollution and increase the air quality in Tacoma. A reduction of solids in smoke has caused a reduction in odor. St. Regis is installing Cottrell smoke treatments in their plant with an estimated cost of $6,000,000. This process should help reduce air pollution. View of laborers applying foam glass insulation to roof at St. Regis Paper Company (T.Times, 7/31/48, p. 1).

Roofs--Tacoma; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Laborers--Tacoma; Air quality--Tacoma; Air pollution--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950;

St. Regis was one of the largest industries in Tacoma and was located in Tacoma's Tide Flats industrial area. The company was undergoing a big expansion project in 1948. This building, currently under construction, would be used to manufacture pulp. Exterior view of St. Regis Paper Company--Kraft Pulp Division industrial plant (T. Times, 8/31/48, p. 22).

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Aerial view, taken in August of 1948, of the large St. Regis Paper Co. plant located in Tacoma's industrial Tideflats. Waterway in center is the Puyallup Waterway. St. Regis was undergoing expansion as depicted by the unfinished building in the foreground. Three years later a big new bag plant would be built, adding to Tacoma's payroll.

Aerial photographs; Aerial views; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Building construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puyallup Waterway (Tacoma);

An aerial view looking east across the Tacoma tideflats with St. Regis Paper Company in the foreground. St. Regis was nearing completion of a $6 million addition to their kraft paper plant and adding a multi-wall bag plant. They have been at this location on the tideflats since 1936.

Aerial photographs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Progress photographs; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Aerial view of new construction in 1948 at St. Regis. St. Regis had an excellent location between the Sitcum Waterway on one side and the Milwaukee Waterway on the other. Below them was Commencement Bay and beyond was more of the Tacoma tideflats. St. Regis was expanding their kraft paper operations and adding a multi-wall bag plant. Logs are seen in Milwaukee Waterway, called the Milwaukee Boom Company dump. Logs were brought in by the railroad and dropped, sorted and made into rafts here. (TNT, 10/17/1948, p.1)

Aerial photographs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Progress photographs; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs;