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

Riegel Carolina Paper & Pulp Mill looking out on the docks on a ship named Mogul with a striped and lettered G figure.

Riegel Carolina Paper & Pulp Mill looking out on the docks on a ship named Mogul with a striped and lettered G figure.

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.

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

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

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 was established in Tacoma in 1928, the New York firm purchased this industrial site, modernized it and began operations in 1936. St. Regis Paper Company is said to be the most modern pulp mill ever built. The Tacoma facilities are spread out over 65 acres, between the Puyallup River Waterway and the St. Paul Lumber Company. Aerial view of St. Regis Paper Company, construction in progress.

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

Progress photographs at St. Regis, St. Regis Paper Company, Kraft Pulp Division. An elevated view of the new construction going on at St. Regis that expanded the existing paper plant and added a multiwall bag plant. According to the company's 1949 Annual Report, Tacoma was the focal point of the company's expanding pulp, paper and multiwall bag operations in the west.

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

The completion of the kraft paper mill in Tacoma, allowed St. Regis a considerable increase in the paper production industry. Interior view of St. Regis plant, view of Jones Majestic machinery; photo ordered by E. D. Jones and Sons Company, machinery and equipment manufacturers based out of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; E.D. Jones & Sons Co. (Tacoma);

The completion of the expansion project in Tacoma, have made this plant the focal point for St. Regis' expanding pulp, paper and multiwall bag operations in the West. Interior view of St. Regis plant, view of Jones Majestic machinery; photo ordered by E. D. Jones and Sons Company, machinery and equipment manufacturers based out of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; E.D. Jones & Sons Co. (Tacoma);

St. Regis' expansion project started after World war II ended in 1945, the company was able to begin paper production in Tacoma in January 1949. Interior view of St. Regis and paper producing machinery; photo ordered by Pusey & Jones Corporation, a machinery manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Pusey & Jones Corp. (Tacoma);

Interior view of St. Regis, view of the new high speed kraft paper machine, this machine is designed to operate at 2,000 feet per minute and produce paper nearly fourteen feet wide; this machine has been operating since January 5, 1949. Photo ordered by Pusey & Jones Corporation, a machinery manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Pusey & Jones Corp. (Tacoma);

St. Regis had been expanding their facilities for many years, the company had added new buildings and was ready to begin the mass production of paper in Tacoma. View of new high speed kraft paper machine, this equipment is used in the "wet end" of paper production. Photo ordered by Pusey & Jones Corporation, a machinery manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Pusey & Jones Corp. (Tacoma);

St. Regis' first mill was located at Deferiet, New York, this mill has been kept modern and enlarged in order to ensure high levels of productivity. Interior view of St. Regis in Tacoma and paper producing machinery; photo ordered by Pusey & Jones Corporation, a machinery manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Paper--Tacoma; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Pusey & Jones Corp. (Tacoma);

Interior view of St. Regis; view of Tacoma mill's new high speed kraft paper machine, it is designed to operate at 2,000 feet per minute and produce paper nearly fourteen feet wide, unidentified man is standing by the machine. Photo ordered by Pusey & Jones Corporation, a machinery manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Paper--Tacoma; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Pusey & Jones Corp. (Tacoma);

Two workers are pictured unloading a roll of Kraft paper to join others already stored in St. Regis' paper storage room. St. Regis had began producing paper in January of 1949 as it used the most modern equipment available at the time to convert liquid pulp into heavy multiwall Kraft paper. The plant was able to produce about 240 tons of multiwall bag paper per day.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Paper; Hoisting machinery; Machinery; Equipment; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950;

Western Gear at St. Regis plant. A view of two large pieces of machinery used in paper manufacturing at the new Kraft paper plant of St. Regis manufactured by Pusey-Jones Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware.

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

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;

One of the employees at St. Regis Paper Company records information from a printout at one of the machines in the plant. Ordered by McGraw Hill Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY.

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

St. Regis had been expanding their facilities for many years, the company had added new buildings and had recently begun the mass production of paper in Tacoma. St. Regis began producing paper in January 1949; the paper mill was converting the liquid pulp into heavy multiwall Kraft paper, using the most modern equipment available. Interior view of plant and new roll grinding machine.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950;

Progress photograph of steelwork at St. Regis Paper Company. The new multiwall bag plant, adjoining the paper mill, was to replace a leased plant at Seattle. The plant was expected to be in operation before April 1, 1952. It would employ approximately 400 people, including a large percentage of women. (St. Regis Annual Report 1951)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Modular home on display. The "MODS" modular home manufactured by the St. Regis Paper Co. was divided into three sections. Here a crane has carefully lowered one section onto the cement parking lot behind the University of Puget Sound Fieldhouse. One more modular home would be placed on display for thousands of Tacomans to inspect as part of the 24th annual Tacoma Home Show. Photograph ordered by St. Regis Paper Co.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1970-1980; Prefabricated houses; Hoisting machinery;

Modern logging operations, St. Regis property in Kapowsin. St. Regis Paper Co. was gradually reducing its usage of the traditional wooden spars in favor of tall steel masts. These portable spars used the same basic principles of high-lead logging whereby powerful winches hauled in logs by cables rigged from the spar. However, the new steel spar could be set up and in operation within 2 1/2 hours of its arrival at a logging site in contrast with the 3+ days a wooden spar would take to set up and rig with steel cables and guy lines. In the above July, 1966, photograph, a portable tower is collapsed from its 110 feet height and ready to move to a new location where it can once again be set up in much less time than a wooden spar. By the end of 1967, St. Regis expected to have nine mobile spars operating in Washington. (St. Regis Midwesterner, May, 1967, p. 3)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Kapowsin); Lumber industry--Kapowsin--1960-1970;

ca. 1964. Majestic Mount Rainier peers over massive timber reserves for St. Regis Paper Co. in this ca. 1964 photograph. These great stands of timber in the foothills of the mountain are included in the Kapowsin Tree Farm which adjoins the western boundary of Mount Rainier National Park. The timber is mostly old-growth Douglas fir and hemlock. They will furnish raw material required by St. Regis' manufacturing operations in Tacoma. (1964 St. Regis Annual Report, cover, p. 1)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Kapowsin); Lumber industry--Kapowsin--1960-1970; Forests--Kapowsin; Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

October, 1967, scenes from Potlatch Forests' Lewiston, Idaho, plant. A Potlatch employee grabs ahold of a long plywood board in the Lewiston, Idaho, plant. The edge of the board, as those of others stacked nearby, are marked "pfi" and "quality," "made in the USA." Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for the 1967 Potlatch Forests annual report.

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

Copy of customer's negatives. This undated photograph was probably taken at St. Regis Paper Co.'s Tacoma offices. Several Japanese businessmen are pictured with two men believed to be St. Regis executives. Japan was a prime market for logs and wood products from the Pacific Northwest. Third man from the left is believed to be Katsumi Yasuda. Photograph ordered by St. Regis Paper Co. on February 8, 1974.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma); Guests--Tacoma--1970-1980;

Copy of customer's negatives. Undated photograph requested copied by St. Regis Paper Co.on February 8, 1974. Man believed to be a St. Regis executive displays a framed painting while several Japanese visitors stand nearby.

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma); Paintings; Guests--Tacoma--1970-1980;