Type specimen sheets of Eastern Corporation, 1947.

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Type specimen sheets of Eastern Corporation, 1947.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166258956

This collection consists of 23 type specimen sheets measuring 56 x 44 cm. (folded to 28 x 21 cm.) printed on various paper stock. Each type specimen sheet is accompanied by a printed cover stock which lists Eastern Corporation of Bangor, Maine paper mill brands and lists the merchants in alphabetical order by city. Included is a history and use of the type and biographical information on the designer of the specimen sheet. Juliette Wiles Staats made the chemise and slipcover that houses the specimen sheets. These are of terra cotta book cloth decorated with a printed repeat design paper.

23 single sheets ; 56 x 44 cm. (folded to 28 x 21 cm.)

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6909188

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Eastern Corporation (Bangor, Me.)

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The Eastern Corporation owned paper mills in Brewer, Orono and Lincoln, Maine. The company began in the 1880s in Brewer as a sawmill, with a sulfite pulp mill built in 1889 to use waste products from the sawmill. In 1896, the company, now called the Eastern Manufacturing Company, began to make both chemical wood fiber and rag paper at the site, later changing the emphasis to the manufacture of fine business papers. In 1915 the company acquired the Katahdin Pulp and Paper Company in Lincoln and i...