Pulp mills on the river, Madison, Maine, 1907
- Card type
- Lithograph
About this postcard
A pulp mill complex lines the far bank of the river at Madison, Maine: red brick mill buildings, tall smokestacks, and drifting white steam, with a hillside stacked high with pulpwood logs behind them. A small boat sits on the water in the foreground. By the early 1900s pulp and paper had become one of Maine's largest industries, and rivers like the Kennebec carried pulpwood down from the north woods to mills of this kind, where it was ground and cooked into paper stock. The stacked cordwood in the view is the mill's raw material waiting its turn.
Postcard Details
R.F.D. Rutland, IL
Postcard record
| Postmarked | , Rutland, IL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Hugh C. Leighton Co. |
| Series | №3187 |
| Condition | Fair |
| Place addressed | Miss Dora Cinnamon, R.F.D., Rutland, IL |
| Place depicted | Madison, ME |
| Place mentioned | Frankfort o/Main, Germany |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only |
| Notes | Undivided-back era card; handwritten message written vertically along the right edge of the picture side; heavy white speckling and scuffing across the image; no white border. Postmark: RUTLAND NOV 3 1907 ILL. Undivided back ("THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS"); Hugh C. Leighton Co. imprint, printed in Frankfort a/Main, Germany, No. 3187. Light toning/soiling; small crease at right near stamp. |
Cite this card
Pulp mills on the river, Madison, Maine, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/pulp-mills-on-the-river-madison-maine-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.