Eastern Manufacturing Company

Abstract The collection contains records of the Eastern Corporation, a paper manufacturer in Brewer, Maine. The records include administrative files, architectural and mechanical drawings, patents and trademarks, company publications, etc. The records were acquired by Special Collections in 2007 and 2008 from the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine. The Folklife Center conducted an oral history project with former employees of the company and in conjunction with that project also...

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Album containing photographs by an unidentified photographer of logging operations in various places in Maine. Images show logging roads and camps, Lombard log haulers, skidways, a tramway at Chamberlain Lake, Shin Pond, and Telos and Webster Dams. Also depicted are railroad stations, Mt. Katahdin, St. Croix Stream and views of the Eastern Manufacturing Company in South Brewer, Maine.

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A ledger recording lumber shipments. Entries record lumber sold by Eastern Mfg. Co., Wm. Engel & Co., and Sterns Lumber Co. There are no entries for Sargent Lbr Co. Entries include date, raft, kind of lumber, by whom sold, purchaser, vessel, and remarks.