Great Southern Lumber Company collection, 1924-1938.

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Great Southern Lumber Company collection, 1924-1938.

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The collection contains photographs of buildings, machinery, and operations of the Great Southern Lumber Company Sawmill and its subsidiary, the Bogalusa Paper Company. Aerial photographs and detailed views of properties, activities, workers, and company officials, including William H. Sullivan and Daniel T. Cushing, are included. Photographs depict reforestation, tung oil groves at Isabel, Louisiana, the pine tree nursery, stands of slash and long-leaf pine, "turpentined" trees, and the Bogue Chitto stock farm. Photographs depicting Huey P. Long at the dedication of the Columbia Street pavement in Bogalusa (1930) are included. Many of the photographs in the collection were removed from two scrapbooks compiled by Mary E. Jones McGraw. Colored postal cards of Bogalusa public buildings, the sawmill, and the paper company are included along with specimens of kraft paper, probably produced at the Bogalusa Paper Company. Printed items include BOGALUSA, THE CITY OF FAMILIES AND FACTORIES, a publication of the Great Southern Lumber Company department of publicity (1924), and the Bogalusa Chamber of Commerce publication, FACTS ABOUT BOGALUSA, THE CITY OF ASSURED GROWTH (1927).

129 items.2 pr. v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6678675

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Bogalusa Paper Co.

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Bogue Chitto Farm.

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Sullivan, William H. (William Henry), d. 1929.

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Bogalusa Tung Oil (Firm)

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Bogalusa Turpentine Company.

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Great Southern Lumber Company

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The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in Pennsylvania in 1902. The Goodyear family, owners of the company, purchased land and erected a sawmill for the cutting of pine timber in Washington Parish, Louisiana, at the future site of the town of Bogalusa. The lumber company expanded into other enterprises including the establishment of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1905), the Bogalusa Paper Company, the Bogalusa Turpentine Company, Bogalusa Tung Oil, Inc., and the Bogalusa Store...

Cushing, Daniel Lewis, 1764-1815

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Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935

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Huey Long Pierce, Louisiana governor and United States senator, was born 30 August 1893, near Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana, and died 10 September 1935. He studied law and practiced in Winnfield after 1915; served as Louisiana public service commissioner (1921-1926); was elected governor of Louisiana (1928); was elected to the United States Senate (1930); and organized the Share-Our-Wealth Society (1934) for which he had national support. On 8 September 1935 he was shot by Dr. Carl A. Weiss ...

McGraw, Mary E. Jones.

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