Beaverboard (also beaver board) is a fiberboard building material, formed of wood fibre compressed into sheets. It was originally a trademark[1] for a lumber product built up from the fibre of clean white spruce[2] made from 1906 until 1928 by the Beaver Manufacturing Company at their plant in Beaver Falls and marketed from their headquarters on Beaver Road, in Buffalo, New York.
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Beaverboard has occasionally been used as a canvas by artists. The painting American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood was painted on a beaverboard panel.[3]
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edit- ^ "beaverboard". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com. Accessed 11 April 2008.
- ^ "Advertisement". Keith's Magazine on Home Building. XXXVII (2). Minneapolis, Minn.: M.L. Keith: 112. February 1917. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "American Gothic". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 28 December 2021.