Paper industry

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by scholar, a teacher, researcher and humorist Irwin Douglass who was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Maine and a widely-known specialist in organosulfur chemistry and the chemistry of wood pulp and pulp manufacture. The record group mostly contains textual information during Douglass's tenure at the University of Maine, but there are also some photographs of events Douglass attended. ...

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The records mostly contain textual information created and curated by the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, but there are also photographs of machinery and paper samples.

The records include annual meeting minutes, bylaws, goals and missions, conference and event publicity material and programs, papers on the pulp and paper history and the history of the Foundation, newspaper clippings, copies of Foundation publications, and scholarship information.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Summer Institute, but there are also pulp samples. The records includes an extensive walkthrough of the pulp and paper processes, which talks about every part and component that the wood endures when making the pulp and paper. The records include documents that have: an explanation of how and why they make the pulp, what chemicals are involved in the process, the science aspect of pulp and paper,...

Abstract

Research materials and papers of Merle B. Shaw, a paper technologist whose career was spent at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.