Machinery

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McSeer Machinery Co.

Interior of workroom at McSeer Machinery Co. in Bush Terminal with several young men working at machines.

[A packing machine]

Packaging machine--where each box is shaped, filled with a dozen pencils, closed and placed with companion boxes for shipment everywhere. (...

[Automatic Packing of Colored Pencils]

Automatic packing of colored pencils. [Handwritten on verso]

[Five-station machine--where fivo perations take place.]

Five-station machine--where five operations take place. Shoulder is...

[Groved slats receiving lead]

Groved slats entering machine to receive lead. [Handwritten on verso]

[Kiln used in the Eberhard Pencil Company]

Lead Processing--Furnace-kiln where leads are vitrified at 2100 degrees F. Batches in crucibles are...

[Lead Cutting]

Lead cutting; used WBRE 3/7/58 TV, [Gage] & Faber, 5th & 6th grades [Handwritten on verso]

[Machinery used to receive leads]

Grooves to receive leads--Eight grooves at a time, half-lead deep, are cut on an exacting machine rumnning 9000...

[North side of Ash Street between Manhattan Avenue and Oakland Street.]

North side of Ash Street between...

[Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying]

Pencil "sandwich" clamped for drying--with leads rolled neatly into grooves, and one slat fitted...

[Pencil Production]

A step in the pencil production process.

[Pencil Varnishing]

Pencil varnishing [Typed on verso] of newly created pencils.

[Pencils cut from 'sandwich']

Individual pencils cut from "sandwich"--here eight pencils are cut apart from "sandwich" slat by high speed cutting...

[Process of creating the pencil 'lead']

Grooved Slat (right of photo); receiving lead (middle); and other grooved slat (left) to form "...

[Sanding machine]

High speed sanding machines smooth pencils--six sides are individually treated to give wood satiny smoothness. (Please credit: Eberhard Faber...

[Step in making the pencil 'sandwich.'

Step in making pencil "sandwich"--with leads in grooves between the slats, the "sandwich" is on the...

[The process of branding pencils]

Branding Pencils--a specially treated and imprinted India leaf is transposed on the pencil by means of heated dies. (...