Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company (Ohio History and Culture)
Current price:
$25.00
Publication Date: November 7th, 2022
Publisher:
University of Akron Press
ISBN:
9781629222271
Pages:
146
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Description
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 the cycle of build, boom, and bust. Readers will come away feeling a greater appreciation of the human story behind the crayon and the Ohio town that produced more crayons and paints than anywhere in the world.
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