Records, 1891-2001.

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Records, 1891-2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261222657

The collection contains administrative files, architectural and mechanical drawings, patent agreements and trademark registration documents, company publications, paper samples, etc. Also included is the company's collection of approximately 3000 plans and drawings of its property, buildings and machinery for its sites in Lincoln, Orono and Brewer. Records of the Madagascal Dam Company, a subsidiary of the Eastern Corporation chartered in 1871 to maintain dams and control water flow on Madagascal Stream in an area adjoining some Eastern Company property, are also contained in the collection.

4 boxes : + ca. 3000 drawings.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7155408

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Madagascal Dam Company

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Eastern Fine Paper, Inc.

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Eastern Manufacturing Company

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Eastern Corporation (Bangor, Me.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6421trx (corporateBody)

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...