Office workers at Eastern, Brewer, ca. 1938
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Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine
More commonly women found work in the many offices of Eastern. While these women in the photograph worked for the company during the 1930s, Lois Andrews began to work for the company in 1956 as a secretary.
She was responsible for typing purchase orders, completing invoices, and filing papers.
Lois left the company for a brief period to begin a family but when she returned she went to work in the stores department, a separate building that housed spare parts for machines as well as office supplies, where she was responsible for typing cards for the various items in the department.
She also took on a job in Human Resources before finally starting work in the lab testing pulp.
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