Large pipe and smokestack at the Riegel Carolina Paper & Pulp Mill.

Man in a red baseball cap engaging with machinery at the Riegel Carolina Paper & Pulp Mill.

Fischer & Porter Co. West Tacoma Newsprint Co. in Steilacoom, WA. Man taking notes on a clipboard reading various circular gauges attached to large machines.

Fischer & Porter Co. West Tacoma Newsprint Co. in Steilacoom, WA.

Person pointing at an electrical box with various gauges at the West Tacoma Newsprint Co. in Steilacoom, WA.

Laborer interacting with machinery at the Fischer & Porter Co. West Tacoma Newsprint Co. in Steilacoom, WA.

St. Regis Paper Company (Kraft Pulp Division) workers, overaged destroyer to be sunk in Commencement Bay for breakwater to protect St. Regis wharf. (T. Times)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Scuttling of warships--United States;

St. Regis Paper Company (Kraft Pulp Division) showing an overaged destroyer that was to be sunk to provide a breakwater. Scuttling of the warship hulk commenced on Thursday, September 19, 1940. St. Regis took over the Union Paper company in 1936. Logs litter the waterway in the foreground. (T.Times)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Scuttling of warships--United States;

St. Regis Paper Company (Kraft Pulp Division), overaged destroyer to be sunk for breakwater. The 20-year-old destroyer, name unknown, was to be sunk in Commencement Bay to provide protection for the St. Regis wharf. Her sister ship had previously been scuttled in British Columbia, also for use as a breakwater. Both ships had been resting in Lake Washington for ten years. (T. Times, 9-19-1940, p. 1- alt. photo)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Scuttling of warships--United States; Warships--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Doomed Destroyer read the mournful heading for this front-page photograph than ran in the Thursday, September 19, 1940 edition of the Tacoma Times. The 20-year-old warship was being scuttled in Commencement Bay that day to serve as a breakwater to protect the St. Regis wharf. The red-painted 330-foot destroyer hulk, name since lost, had been owned by the Foss company for the past ten years. Derrick of the pile driver used in the operation is in the background along with a tugboat and St. Regis's dock. (T. Times 9-19-1940, p. 1)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Warships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tugboats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Scuttling of warships--United States; Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hoisting machinery;

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;

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;

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);

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)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Architectural drawings; Logs; Water towers--Tacoma--1940-1950; McCarthy, J.H.; DeLong, Walter; McCorry, Adolph C.;

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 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;

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.

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

Several views of chimneys at St. Regis Paper Co. were photographed on March 24, 1954. This may have been a new chimney constructed by the Boedecker Chimney Construction Co. It was not typically black, but seems to be lighter in color. Smoke is billowing out from the top. Photograph ordered by Boedecker Chimney Construction Co.

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

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;

The Pacific Coast Association of Pulp & Paper Manufacturers met in Tacoma in March, 1953. They were attending the 7th Annual Joint Labor-Management Safety Conference. They joined union and employer representatives from twenty mills; sponsors included the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and International Brotherhood of Paper Makers. View of association members awaiting luncheon at the Winthrop Hotel. (TNT 3-1-53, B-10)

Pacific Coast Association of Pulp & Paper Manufacturers (Tacoma); Group portraits; Meetings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

ca. 1953. St. Regis Paper Co.--Florida. St. Regis continued to expand its base of business to include the southern portion of the United States. Besides the "Kraft center" in Pensacola, Florida, St. Regis also built a new kraft paper and board mill, including pulp manufacturing facilities, in Jacksonville in 1952-53. View of multi-glassed office building in Jacksonville with St. Regis logo; it may have been the administrative offices of the company there.

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

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;

ca. 1953. Exterior of St. Regis Paper Co. plant. A multi-colored smokestack is just one of many at the St. Regis Paper Co. plant in Jacksonville, Florida, in a 1953 photograph. St. Regis had plants in several states as well as in Canada and South America. The Jacksonville plant was one of the newest; it was a kraft paper and board mill, including pulp manufacturing facilities, constructed in 1952. It began production in January, 1953, and helped to increase national overall production of kraft paper and boards to 486,000 tons from the 1952 total of 351,000 tons. (1953 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 10)

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

Overhead view of interior of St. Regis plant. Two St. Regis Paper Co. employees appear dwarfed by massive machinery in a July 29, 1953, photograph. One man is standing behind a metallic stand of gauges, handles, and knobs which apparently control the large rolls from the paper machine. There are other instrument panels positioned nearby; they may have been made by the General Electric Co. Photograph ordered by the General Electric Co.

General Electric Co.; St. Regis Paper Co.; Machinery;

Interior of Florida St. Regis plant. A huge metallic duct connects to a Worthington machine inside the Jacksonville, Florida, St. Regis Paper Co. facility. Brick walls and tanks are in the background. The Jacksonville kraft and pulp mill began to operate in January, 1953. It soon added to St. Regis' total kraft paper and board production which totaled 486,000 tons in 1953. This was a 38% increase over the previous year. Photograph ordered by Stebbins Engineering & Manufacturing Co. (1953 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 10)

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

Two enormous storage tanks, made of brick and concrete, were part of the Jacksonville, Florida, St. Regis Paper Co. plant in 1953. These tanks could have held chips or pulp. The Jacksonville kraft and pulp mill would undergo expansion, to be completed in 1957, to include a 1000-ton board machine which manufactured kraft board for the corrugated shipping container market. The enlarged mill would have more than four times as much pulp capacity as was originally built. Photograph ordered by the Stebbins Engineering & Manufacturing Co. (1955 St. Regis Annual Report, p. 10)

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