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The company sold a variety of products, including greeting cards, stationery, gift wrap, specialty gifts, jewelry, customized invitations, and other paper products. [5] [6] [7] It was one of the largest greeting card retailers in the United States. [8] [9] The Papyrus products rights are owned by American Greetings. [10]
During this time, the entry of America into World War I halted the import of German-manufactured products, and likely contributed to the success of the company. [12] By 1914, M.F. Christensen and Son was making 1 million marbles per month. 1916 was a very good year for production yields and 1917 looked just as promising before the United ...
Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. [1] The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size , and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper or fabric.
Loring studied bookbinding at the Sears School of Bookbinding [note 1] in Boston's Back Bay. [4] Having difficulty finding high quality decorated paper for use in binding, she turned to making her own, setting up a studio on the top floor of her home and experimenting based on a scrap of information about paste paper gleaned from Joseph Zaehnsdorf's The Art of Bookbinding. [5]
It was originally known as Schurman Fine Papers and operated as a wholesaler, importing fine art-inspired greeting cards, stationery, and other paper products from Europe. [8] [5] The Schurmans would sell the imported paper products to local gift and book shops. In its first year of operation, the company earned $20,000.
Champion International was a large paper and wood products producer based since 1980 in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] It was acquired by International Paper in 2000.. From 1893 it had been based in Hamilton, Ohio, expanding to plants in Texas and Western North Carolina by the 1930s.
Sawmill edgings, slabs, and trimmings were converted to wood chips as a raw material for paper production. [2] At its nexus during the 1960s, Fraser Papers employed over 3,700 workers in several pulp and paper mills and saw mills throughout North America: Atholville, New Brunswick pulp mill; Edmundston, New Brunswick pulp mill; Madawaska, Maine ...
The company had assets of nearly $100 million, over 350,000 acres of timberland, and paper mills throughout the Pacific Coast capable of producing 1450 tons of finished paper daily. [3] It expanded steadily throughout the 1930s and substantially during the second world war when European paper manufacturers no longer exported to the United States.