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Portrait of LeRay Paper Mill workers in LeRay

Portrait of LeRay Paper Mill workers in LeRay

Men of the LeRay Paper Mill are pictured in the yard.  Second from the left, top row, is Ray Rogers; extreme right, front row, Will Van Brocklin. In 1899, this mill employed 60 men, consumed 15,000 cords of wood per year and had a gross output of 27 tons per day or about 17,000,000 pounds of pulp per year. Photo taken circa 1900. LeRay, NY. Information obtained by Lynn Thornton from an 1899 souvenir booklet.

Caption info compiled by Lynn Thornton, Laura Prievo, and Harold Sanderson for the Images of America book Around Carthage and West Carthage.

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