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…
Master mechanic Crawford Smith and Millwright Alvin Franklin look over a completed emergency repair job on the No. 1 paper machine at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the…
Among those pictured are Ora Akins, Roy 'Buck', Roy Whitaker, Charlie Hurst, and Vester Blanton in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for the twenty-five year service award dinner. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs…
Herschel Cabe, Marshall Mason, and Bob Harris had to run a temporary electric line to the motor hooked to No.1 paper machine. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1950's publication of…
Vince and Eldon Hooper at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. 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…
Joe Dietz (left), and Bob Lacey at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. 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,…
Millwrights Clifford Beck, Bill Paxton, and Alvin Franklin working on an emergency repair job to get No. 1 paper machine back in operation at the Mead plant near downtown Sylva. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created…
Mr. Growden, J.B. Sutton, and "Punkin" Jones in the lobby of the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers for the twenty-five year service award dinner. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1950's…
Hubert Dock Harris and Clifton Fisher work on a temporary solution to repair No. 1 paper machine by revising the line shaft in order to hook up an electric motor to it. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the…
Ike Fischer, Grover Fisher, and Charlie Mathis eating at the Legion Home for a local union group gathering. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs that were created for the Sylvan, a monthly 1950's publication of Sylva's Mead…