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Summary Information
Penokee Veneer Company
1939-1967
Northland Mss I; PH 3925
36.4 c.f. (27 record center cartons and 25 archives boxes), 474 photographs, and 8 negatives
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of a hardwood veneer and plywood company which operated in northwestern Wisconsin and of its subsidiaries and associated companies, Splicedwood Corporation, Chequamegon Forest Products, and F.A. MacDonald Co. Also included is considerable material from conservative political organizations and manufacturers associations which document their anti-Communist ideas, opposition to unions, and efforts to affect national trade policy and limit the importation of Japanese plywood. Files consist of correspondence, newsletters, sales and production reports, inventories, personnel files, files of company attorney Richard R. Prittie, and financial and administrative records. Prominent correspondents are Joseph McCarthy, Alexander Wiley, and Alvin O'Konski. Prominent manufacturers' associations represented are the Hardwood Plywood Institute, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, National Association of Manufacturers, Northern Hemlock and Manufacturers Association, Veneer Association, and the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association. Penokee founder M. C. McIver served as a director of Northland College (Ashland, Wisconsin); the college is documented by correspondence, financial material, and information on the Freedom Leaders Councils held in the 1950s. Photographs are related to employees, operations, and products of the company throughout its history. They include documentation of each step in the veneer making process.
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