Berlin’s paper past
From the Brown Company Photographic Collection at the Museum of the White Mountains, at Plymouth (N.H.) State University, about the once big paper industry centered in Berlin, N.H., in a region with forests providing the mills with raw material.
The museum explains:
The Brown Company Photographic Collection documents the history of the company’s paper mill from the late 19th Century through the mid-1960s.
Much of the collection chronicles the social, cultural, and recreational lives of the workers, their families, and the place of these people in the life of Berlin. The images, which are accessible from the Web site, let viewers add written content about the photographs, or to share information about the paper mill by telephone.
Video: The newsprint capital
One of Berlin’s paper mills, in 1912. While the industry brought many jobs, it also polluted the Androscoggin River, as well as the air in Berlin.
“Berlin, New Hampshire, in the heart of the Northern Forest, is a small city of approximately 10,000 people, best known for its paper mills and being the largest producer of newsprint in the world during the mid-twentieth century. The city's history is as deep as the woods that surround it. Our dynamic partnership brings together Timberlane Regional High School, in Plaistow, New Hampshire, and the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society in an oral history project, resulting in a ninety-minute documentary on Berlin in the 20th Century. Part of Historic New England's ‘Everyone's History’ series.’’
Hit this link for video
