Filtered Rosin Products, Inc., and related industries records, 1937-1959.

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Filtered Rosin Products, Inc., and related industries records, 1937-1959.

The records include correspondence, minutes, tax records, reports, charts, journal vouchers, legal agreements, committee records, organizational records, publications, and maps relating to this naval stores business. Besides the Filtered Rosin Products, Inc. (FRP) records, the collection includes some papers of the Gum Processors Association, the American Turpentine Farmers Association, and various related companies such as The Rosa Company (Clinch Co.), Columbia Naval Stores (Chatham Co.), and the Brunswick Peninsula Corporation.

1.5 cubic ft.1 oversized folder.

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Filtered Rosin Products, Inc.

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Filtered Rosin Products, Inc. (FRP)"became a business entity in 1939" [July 12, 1949, memorandum to Mitchell, Donahoo, & Rogers, in Correspondence, 1949-1954, Folder 04, with a fuller account in the May 5, 1948, memo to them in Folder 03] producing the pine tree gum used in ship building (hence the term naval stores used to describe the industry) and more recently processed into paints, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and synthetic rubbers as well as by-products, turpentine and rosin...

American Turpentine Farmers Association

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Naval Stores

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Gum Processing Association

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