The Brown Paper Company: Collection Highlights Talk

Beginning as a modest sawmill located on the Androscoggin River in Berlin, the Brown Paper Company would grow to become one of the largest and most advanced paper and pulp manufacturers in the world. In 2009 and 2010 Fraser Paper Company, the last remnant of Brown’s Berlin operations, donated the company records to the New Hampshire Historical Society. Those records, which span the years 1871 to 1996, reveal the inner workings of a dynamic company that created the first research and development department in the industry and later survived two world wars and bankruptcy. This presentation is offered by John Rule, a retired engineer who has served as the project archivist for the Society’s Brown Company collection since 2010. Collection Highlights Talks are included in the price of admission. Society members are free.