Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
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[A company function] Persons at a company function. |
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[A company function] A group of people at a company function. |
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[A packing machine] Packaging machine--where each box is shaped, filled with a dozen pencils, closed and placed with companion boxes for shipment everywhere. (... |
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[Advertisement for Eberhard Faber 'Mongol" Pencil] 1939 [verso]; wooden display No.71, 3'8" wide, 3'10" high [recto].... |
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[Advertisement for Eberhard Faber Writing Materials] Received Oct 24, 1939, 3:29 pm, Eberhard Faber Pencil Co., Brooklyn [Stamped... |
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[Automatic Packing of Colored Pencils] Automatic packing of colored pencils. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Boxing and Labeling Department] Eberhard Faber Boxing & Labeling Dept. |
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[Cedar Slats] Choice Western incense cedar slats--which are processed into wood bodies for pencils. Straight-grained, they are just right for easy sharpening. (... |
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[Contract signing] Empire Photographers, Inc., 1595 Broadway, New York 19, NY [Stamped on verso]. Contract signing by Eberhard Faber executives. |
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[Eberhard Faber boxing and labelling department] Employees in the Eberhard Faber Boxing and Labelling Department. |
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[Eberhard Faber Co., banquet/dinner function] E Bohlin [verso]. A company banquet/ dinner function. |
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[Eberhard Faber II] John who later changed his name to Eberhard Faber II. [Written on verso] Portrait of Eberhard Faber II, son of Eberhard Faber. |
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[Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Building] A photographic copy of a black-and-white illustration of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company... |
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[Eraser Display] 1939 [verso] Display of Eberhard Faber erasers. |
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[Female Factory Workers] Women working in the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. |
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[Female Factory Workers] Female factory workers in the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Factory. |
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[Female Factory Workers] Female factory workers in the Eberhard Pencil factory. |
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[Female Pencil Factory Workers] Women working in the Eberhard Faber Pencil factory. |
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[Five-station machine--where fivo perations take place.] Five-station machine--where five operations take place. Shoulder is... |
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[Groved slats receiving lead] Groved slats entering machine to receive lead. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Kiln used in the Eberhard Pencil Company] Lead Processing--Furnace-kiln where leads are vitrified at 2100 degrees F. Batches in crucibles are... |
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[Lead Batches] Lead batches. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Lead Cutting] Lead cutting; used WBRE 3/7/58 TV, [Gage] & Faber, 5th & 6th grades [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Lead Storage Boxes] Photograph of lead storage boxes. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[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... |
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[Mongol Colored Pencil Display] 1939 [verso]; wooden display No.72, 4' wide, 4'1" high [recto]. Display of Mongol colored pencils. |
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[Newly Coated Pencil] newly coated pencils -- receive as many paint coats as a fine car -- up to 13. Thousands at a time move on a conveyor belt designed for... |
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[Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying] Pencil "sandwich" clamped for drying--with leads rolled neatly into grooves, and one slat fitted... |
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[Pencil Production] A step in the pencil production process. |
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[Pencil Varnishing] Pencil varnishing [Typed on verso] of newly created pencils. |
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[Pencils cut from 'sandwich'] Individual pencils cut from "sandwich"--here eight pencils are cut apart from "sandwich" slat by high speed cutting... |
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[Portrait of Lothar Washington Faber] Portrait of Lothar Washington Faber, son of Eberhard Faber. |
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[Process of creating the pencil 'lead'] Grooved Slat (right of photo); receiving lead (middle); and other grooved slat (left) to form "... |
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[Sanding machine] High speed sanding machines smooth pencils--six sides are individually treated to give wood satiny smoothness. (Please credit: Eberhard Faber... |
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[Step in making the pencil 'sandwich.' Step in making pencil "sandwich"--with leads in grooves between the slats, the "sandwich" is on the... |
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[The process of branding pencils] Branding Pencils--a specially treated and imprinted India leaf is transposed on the pencil by means of heated dies. (... |
