International Paper Company Mill at Jay on the Androscoggin River, photograph by Charles Steinhacker, Jay, Maine, ca. 1973. Courtesy of the National Archives.
International Paper Company Mill at Jay on the Androscoggin River, photograph by Charles Steinhacker, Jay, Maine, ca. 1973. Courtesy of the National Archives.
This image is of the Androscoggin Mill owned by the International Paper Company (IP) in Jay, Maine. In 1898, Hugh Chisholm of Portland, Maine and New York City formed IP when he brought together seventeen pulp and paper mills across Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Canada. The "Andro" mill, as it was locally known, was built in 1906 and had later additions.
In 1987, IP was the world's largest paper company and the largest landowner in the United States. Although profits hit nearly record highs in the mid-1980s, the company feared international competition and had recently lost market share.