Whitefield second graders recently enjoyed a field trip to the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, an internationally renowned museum on the history of paper and paper technology. Part of the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, the museum has over 2,000 books about paper production and features a collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts.
The students traced the evolution of papermaking from plants and recycled rags to the discovery of trees as a source of fibers for paper. They also learned about the different types of paper and enjoyed making their own sheet of paper from cotton pulp and shredded currency no longer in circulation.