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10087 Eastern Manufacturing. c. 1927. Photo by Edward Peters Wentworth, employee.
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10111 Long, windowed room inside mill, where more than twenty-five women sort rags to be used in the papermaking process.
Women are capped and aproned, overseen by man in suit and tie at far end of room; windows open,
rags sorted into large barrels.
Early twentieth century.
Eastern Fine Paper Mill, Brewer, Maine.
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10114 Eastern Fine Paper Brewer mill.
Photo of old chemical plant at Eastern mill. Brick building in background, next to log pile and conveyor, lumber pile in foreground.
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10115 Eastern Fine Paper, Brewer mill.
Inside Chemical Plant - long shot of machinery and vats
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10116 Cutting Up Rags - a one - armed man is supervisions women in the rag room. A large bale of shredded rags is in foreground.
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10117 Eastern Fine Paper Brewer mill.
Chemical Storage Tanks photo of tall tanks in room. Ladder to catwalk in foreground
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10118
Pulp in Bleaching tanks - room filled with tanks of pulp going through chemical bleaching process.
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Pulp Washers.
The pulp is repeatedly washed during the bleaching process to produce clean paper.
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10198 The baling department at the Eastern Corporation in Brewer c. mid - 1930s. L to r: Eugene Strang,
Margaret E. Carey and Harry M. Hayden. Note the bales of rags in the background to be used for the production of fine paper.
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10518 Reading Room - long large room with chaises and chairs of wicker windows, bookcases
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10120 Pumps.
a line of five pumps in a long room
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10510 shot of long box and four rectangular affairs with metal doors opened by chain pulleys.
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10511 making rags into pulp.
Photo of beater tubs where the linen or cotton rags would be chopped up and beaten soft in water to
make a pulp to be added to other wood pulps for bond paper.
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10512 Refiner: #568 on side of machine. Refiner fine chopped the pulp for smoother paper
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10513 Old Paper Machine
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10514 Winding paper off paper machine
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10515 paper machine - shot of one end of paper machine
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10516 Hanging Paper to dry - two men hang individual large sheets on racks to dry
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10517 Cafeteria - large space with tables and bentwood chairs- big windows with blinds
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