9/ BOXING DAY

9/ Boxing Day. American Crayon made its own packaging building durable wooden dovetail boxes suitable for shipping chalk and crayons. By 1921 the company made over 1 million maple boxes a year. The boxes were so sturdy that they came to the attention of the giants of the automobile industry. Henry Ford ordered them by the thousands to hold electrical coils sat in the engine compartment of the model Ts rolling off his Detroit assembly lines. This and more stories in my book Color Capital of the World. https://blogs.uakron.edu/.../color-capital-of-the-world/