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MSS
JohnsonMill
C.D. Johnson Lumber
Company Toledo Mill Collection
1920-1995
0.05 cubic foot, including 8
photographs
2 boxes, including 1
oversize box
The C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo
Mill Collection consists of photographs, newspaper articles, and other
materials pertaining primarily to the mill in Toledo, Oregon. The C.D.
Johnson Lumber Company was established in 1922 as a subsidiary of the
Pacific Spruce Corporation and was, at one time, the largest spruce mill
in the world.
Materials in English.
Historical Note:
The C.D. Johnson Lumber Company was established in 1922 as a subsidiary
of the Pacific Spruce Corporation. In 1920, the Pacific Spruce Corporation
acquired all the holdings of the United States Spruce Production
Corporation, which had supplied high quality spruce wood for airplane
production during World War I. At one time, the C.D. Johnson Mill was the
largest spruce mill in the world. In 1951, after the deaths of several of
the company's executives, the mill was acquired by the Georgia-Pacific
Corporation.
The C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection consists of
photographs, newspaper articles, and other materials pertaining primarily
to the mill in Toledo, Oregon. The photographs consist of 8 photographic
prints made in the 1920s depicting the interior and exterior of the mill.
Several of the photographs were made by Acme Photo of Portland, Oregon. A
1995 supplement to the
Newport News-Times on the history of the
C.D. Johnson Mill is also part of the collection. This supplement includes
many historic photographs of the mill operations.
The collection also includes newspaper clippings about the Siletz
Tribe; the legend of Jump-Off Joe, a sea stack at Nye Beach, Newport,
Oregon; and the Himelwright family and their livestock business. A picture
postcard of the Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Springfield, Oregon, is also
included.
Collection is open for research.
C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection, Oregon State
University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
The materials were donated to the Archives in 2005 by Johanna
DeStefano, whose father worked at the mill. An Oregon native, DeStefano is
Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, where she was a faculty
member and administrator in the College of Education until her retirement
in 2000.
A 1924 publication about the C.D. Johnson Lumber Company and the
Pacific Spruce Corporation is available
online. The
Gerald W.
Williams Collection includes substantive materials pertaining to
spruce logging and lumber production; selected images from the Williams
Collection are available online, including an image of the
Toledo mill that
became the C.D. Johnson Lumber Company in the 1920s. The Bruce P. Disque
Papers at the
University
of Oregon and
University
of Washington document the United States Army's Spruce Production
Division during World War I. The OSU Archives includes many collections
documenting the lumber and wood products industry in Oregon. Of note in
relation to this collection are the
Harold
Frodsham Photographs (P 271), which consist of images of lumber
mills in Oregon in the early 1920s; the
Edgar P.
Hoener Papers; and the Crown Zellerbach Corporation Photographic
Collection (P 216) documenting the paper mill in Lebanon, Oregon.
C. D. Johnson
Lumber Company.
Pacific Spruce
Corporation.
Lumbering--Oregon.
Siletz Indians.
Toledo
(Or.)
Photographic
prints.
Forestry and Forestry
Products
Oregon
Photographs