2. Starting Small: Childrens Crayons

 

Second in my crayon series…this one a sample of a few of American Crayons Co’s first products. In the early 1900s, ACC Offered a series of “penny pack” crayons and chalk. Some of the small square packs came w a picture on the back for a child to color. It was early days and there was still some confusion over the term “crayon”. Some were wax crayons and others chalk crayons. Eventually wax based crayons became known simply as crayons. They briefly offered packaging in a small cardboard canister — American Buckeye School Crayons.

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Color Capital of the World is available with a discount code that gives 30% off (crayon30) for this site only. University of Akron Press

 

It's also available through your independent book stores and here: 

Bookshop.org

Indiebound

 

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