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1. Card, Playing - Deck of playing cards received for being a safe worker at Longview Fibre for five years without an accident. Box has a card pasted over one side that reads, "Longview Fibre Company / Longfibre Kraft / You're dealing with a safe worker". Each card in the deck has a safety tip illustrated with a cartoon.

   c. 1960s

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Decoy - Canadian Goose decoy silhouette made out of Longview Fibre V-board. V-board is a solid fibre cardboard the War Department asked Longview Fibre to develop during World War II, for dropping supplies off of ships to float in to islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. V-board was made to float and last at least 24 hours in water. Allen Parson, father of the donor, was hunting buddies with Bob Wertheimer, owner of Longview Fibre, and had this decoy made at Longview Fibre at night. The decoy was used for goose hunting on Cottonwood Island. The decoy consists of three pieces - two mirror image side pieces stapled together at the top, with a head and neck piece riveted in between them. There is black and white paint on it in the pattern of Canadian Geese.

   c. 1944

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Tag, Identification - Longview Fibre Co. log raft identification tag, collected by the donor's father, who worked there around 1940. Logs were used in Longview Fibre's groundwood mill, which made paper (usually paper towels) in a completely mechanical fashion. Wood was ground into a pulp and then formed into paper without the use of chemicals to digest it.

   1940

   Record Type: Object