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An employee works with rosin at the Union Bag and Paper Company, later Union Camp. Rosin, a distillation of turpentine, is used in the manufacture of paper. A by-product of timbering and naval stores production, the southeast's supply of rosin is drawn largely from loblolly and swamp pines. 

Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society, Foltz Photography Studio (Savannah, Ga.), photographs, 1899-1960, #1360-21-03-13.

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