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Mill Workers
No. 7 Paper Machine from the Dry End
No. 7 Paper Machine from the Dry End

Date: 196-?
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. André Pelletier, Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: Picture shows a worker at the Number 7 paper machine from the dry end at Fraser Paper Limited, in Madawaska, Maine. This machine designed for a maximum speed of 2000 ft. per minute, was the first one added by the company since 1930. It was built to produce light and medium weight papers from woodpulp.

Subject: Maine, Logging, Paper industry workers, Madawaska