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.
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.
No no. 2s?
A CNN teaser for a story about shortages affecting back-to-school shopping just made reference to children “stuck with the dreaded no. 1 pencil.” Not “dreaded” to my mind.
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.”
A coach’s pencil and paper
A football playsheet is laminated. So why does Matt Patricia, coach of the Detroit Lions, carry a pencil?
Non-metaphorical sharpening
John Dickerson: “School is starting again and I am sharpening my pencils. That’s not a metaphor. I am actually sharpening pencils.”
At the office with Louis Malle
The opening scenes of Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958) are office-centric.
“School supplies and fun”
A 1953 Woolworth advertisement for school supplies.
“Heavy, black pencils”
The tools of a copy editor, as described by Lincoln Grahlfs, a New York Times copy editor for forty years.
“Your Best Buy’s Mongol” (and other buys)
From Life magazine, 1956.