Atlas Stationers
It’s pen and paper bliss in Chicago.
It’s pen and paper bliss
“School Pencils? Pencil Cases?”
A 1953 Woolworth’s ad.
“Fascinating implements”
Visiting the seven-year-old artist Edward Penn, who lives in a room in the heated basement of his parents’ house and doesn’t go to school.
An Eberhard Faber album
Here’s a short video tour of an Eberhard Faber sales-rep’s album (circa 1915). Must be seen to be believed.
Alvin will return
A venerable name in supplies.
CW Pencil and
“After almost six years exclusively selling graphite, the notoriously niche CW Pencil Enterprise is soon to become a full-service office supply shop.”
Alvin & Company
As a lifelong resident in the world of “supplies,” I’ll miss Alvin & Company.
Desk organizers
You can see, right away, the difference the organizer makes, even if it’s difficult to spot the organizer.
Streetside supplies
In The Guardian: “Public furniture inspired by office equipment.”
Ace Gummed Reinforcements
Mysterious, shadowy. What were they doing there? And what did they want from me?
Ink, nibs, and Zip-a-Tone
“One by one, all th’ art supplies of my youth are disappearing!”
“Old timers”
From a history of the stationery industry: “Other ‘old timers’ most of which are now past history are Stoake’s automatic shading pens — Brigg’s glass linen marking pens — Rubber marking pens” — and on and on.
“School supplies and fun”
A 1953 Woolworth advertisement for school supplies.
Index-card recommendation
Much better than Oxford or Staples grid cards, and a fraction of the cost of Exacompta.
The supply closet
In The Boston Globe, John Segal, creative director for Crane & Co., describes a primal scene.
“Heavy, black pencils”
The tools of a copy editor, as described by Lincoln Grahlfs, a New York Times copy editor for forty years.
“Gardening is the new stationery”
In other words, there will be supplies.
Shopping for supplies
Lorelai Gilmore: “Before anything else can happen, you need pens, you need paper, you need everything else, don’t you?”
A4 Clipboard
“We need to record words for our learning.”
Barton Keyes’s office
From the film Double Indemnity. Three telephones, a Dictaphone, extra cylinders, books, papers, a desk calendar, wall charts, and file cabinets. Oh, those file cabinets.
My dad on supplies
“It is better to be oversupplied than undersupplied.”