Mead Corporation

Mead Corporation

Electric lines -- Poles and towers

Factories

Industrial chimneys

Mead Corporation. Sylva Division

Paper industry

Railroad tracks

Signs and signboards

Lewis Ellsworth took this photograph of the train tracks leading into the Mead Corporation Sylva Division, as well as the plant's sign, around 1949. Mead opened a plant producing paper for cardboard boxes just east of downtown Sylva in 1928. They expanded in 1955 and closed in 1974 due to environmental concerns. In 1995, the property became home to Jackson Paper Manufacturing Company, a recycle-based operation. Ellsworth took a photograph from the same location in 2003.

Ellsworth, Lewis

Lewis Ellsworth Photographic Slides Collection

1949

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slides (photographs)

StillImage

64598

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Sylva (N.C.)

1" x 1.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia