John H. Staples collection on Maine pulpwood logging, circa 1940-1996.

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John H. Staples collection on Maine pulpwood logging, circa 1940-1996.

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Newspaper clippings, on Maine's pulpwood industry and lumber trade, from articles that ran in a Maine Sunday Telegram three-part series (1996 Sept.), by John H. Staples; together with seventeen black and white photographs of pulpwood logging, log driving, and lumber camps in Maine during the 1940s. Places represented include the Penobscot River Watershed.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7295847

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Staples, John H.

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Great Northern Paper Company

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Great Northern Paper Company began with construction of a mill in Millinocket, Maine, in 1899, followed by the acquisition of an existing mill at Madison, Maine, and the construction of a third mill in East Millinocket in 1906. The company's timberland holdings reached over 2 million acres in the 1940s; in addition it owned dams and hydroelectric stations including Dolby and Ripogenus dams, farms, a hotel, and several vessels. In 1970 the company merged with Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co. to become G...