Hattie H. Allison, personnel secretary, pins a white carnation corsage on each woman as she enters the Mead employee safety dinner. Sue Painter, Wood Procurement secretary, hands out a number for door prize drawings. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1950's publication of Sylva's Mead Corporation. Mead, which opened in 1928, expanded in 1955 and closed in 1974 due to environmental concerns, produced paper for cardboard boxes. Jackson Paper Manufacturing Company, a recycle-based operation, opened in 1995 in the same location
Herschel Cabe, Marshall Mason, and Bob Harris had to run a temporary electric line to the motor hook...
This undated photograph shows the Mead Corporation which opened a plant producing paper for cardboar...
Howard Wehr, division manager for the Harriman Division, is pictured at left in the lobby of the Hig...
Pictured here are approximately 300 Mead employees and their wives at a Mead employee saftey dinner ...
A group of Mead employees relaxing in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for the twenty-f...
This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1...
This photograph of the Mead plant near downtown Sylva is part of a collection of photographs that we...
This photograph of R. O. Sutton and Frank Winkler wearing a white carnation corsage is part of a col...
Frank Buchanan and "Rosie" Ensley at the Employee entrance to the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. Th...
Ted Fincannon working at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collection...
Marshall Mason, Bob Harris, and Hershall Cabe eating at the Legion Home for a local union group gath...
Mr. Growden, J.B. Sutton, and "Punkin" Jones in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for th...
This photograph of a Highway patrolman speaking to a group at Sylva's Mead Corporation is part of a ...
This photograph of Mike Strong, Ellis Harris, Walt Hoyle, and T.C. Cogdill is part of a collection o...
Vince and Eldon Hooper at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collectio...
Herschel Cabe, Marshall Mason, and Bob Harris had to run a temporary electric line to the motor hook...
This undated photograph shows the Mead Corporation which opened a plant producing paper for cardboar...
Howard Wehr, division manager for the Harriman Division, is pictured at left in the lobby of the Hig...
Pictured here are approximately 300 Mead employees and their wives at a Mead employee saftey dinner ...
A group of Mead employees relaxing in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for the twenty-f...
This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1...
This photograph of the Mead plant near downtown Sylva is part of a collection of photographs that we...
This photograph of R. O. Sutton and Frank Winkler wearing a white carnation corsage is part of a col...
Frank Buchanan and "Rosie" Ensley at the Employee entrance to the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. Th...
Ted Fincannon working at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collection...
Marshall Mason, Bob Harris, and Hershall Cabe eating at the Legion Home for a local union group gath...
Mr. Growden, J.B. Sutton, and "Punkin" Jones in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for th...
This photograph of a Highway patrolman speaking to a group at Sylva's Mead Corporation is part of a ...
This photograph of Mike Strong, Ellis Harris, Walt Hoyle, and T.C. Cogdill is part of a collection o...
Vince and Eldon Hooper at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collectio...
Herschel Cabe, Marshall Mason, and Bob Harris had to run a temporary electric line to the motor hook...
This undated photograph shows the Mead Corporation which opened a plant producing paper for cardboar...
Howard Wehr, division manager for the Harriman Division, is pictured at left in the lobby of the Hig...