C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection, 1920-1995

Title: C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection, 1920-1995

ID: MSS JohnsonMill

Primary Creator: C. D. Johnson Lumber Company

Extent: 0.05 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

Scope and Content Notes

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.

Biographical / Historical Notes

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.

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 8 photographs; 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: 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.

Related Materials:

A 1924 publication about the C.D. Johnson Lumber Company and the Pacific Spruce Corporation is available online. The Gerald W. Williams Collection (MSS WilliamsG) 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 Special Collections and Archives Research Center 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 (MSS Hoener); and the Crown Zellerbach Corporation Photographic Collection (P 216) documenting the paper mill in Lebanon, Oregon.

Preferred Citation: C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection (MSS JohnsonMill), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection, 1920-1995

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