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Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company (Series on Ohio History and Culture)
Color Capital of the World Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company - Series on Ohio History and Culture
Author: John Whitworth Kropf
This is the story of the crayon. Following the Civil War, three entrepreneurial families took their innovative ideas for school chalk from the kitchen stove and transformed them into the American Crayon Company. Color Capital of the World tells this story through the eyes of one of the founding family's descendants, tracing ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781629222271
ISBN-10: 1629222275
Publication Date: 11/7/2022
Pages: 146
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Publisher: University of Akron Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 3
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John W. Kropf wrote a very personal history of the town of Sandusky, Ohio and the American Crayon Company that was in his family for several generations. He writes in detail about the ups and downs of the world of manufacturing and how this all affected the town of Sandusky, where the company was originally headquartered.
I was sometimes a bit confused about who was who and the time-line. Maybe the book could have benefited from some additional editing. Overall, an informative book

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