Crossett Company collection, 1900-1907, 1921-1962.

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Crossett Company collection, 1900-1907, 1921-1962.

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The Crossett Company Collection consists of records of the Crossett Lumber Company and affiliated companies from 1900 to 1962. It includes bound copies of minutes of the directors' meetings of the Crossett companies; annual reports, monthly letters, and miscellaneous data of the Crossett Lumber Company; reports, monthly letters, and management data of the Crossett Forestry Division; annual reports and monthly letters of the Crossett Chemical Company; annual reports, monthly letters, and related items of the Crossett Paper Mill; monthly letters of the Research, Personnel, Treasurer's, and Legal Departments; annual reports and monthly letters of the Bank of Crossett; advertising brochures; and the company publication "Forest Echoes." The Crossett Company Collection also includes an album of photographs of Crossett, Ark.; letterpress copybooks of Edgar Woodward Gates and Charles W. Gates; and assorted publications.

6 items.132 v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6818448

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Gates, C. W.

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Crossett Chemical Company.

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Bank of Crossett.

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Gates, E. W.

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Crossett Lumber Company

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Edgar Woodward "Cap" Gates, an Iowa lumberman; Charles W. Gates, his brother; Edward S. Crossett, a veteran lumberman; and Dr. John Watzek, an investor, incorporated the Crossett Lumber Company in 1899. They purchased more than 50,000 acres of land in southeast Arkansas and built the company mill town of Crossett, Ark. The Crossett Lumber Company consulted with foresters from Yale University and the Federal Bureau of Forestry to begin sustainable lumbering in the 1920s. It expanded from a lumber...