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[Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying]

[Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying]
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Title: [Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying]
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Pencil "sandwich" clamped for drying--with leads rolled neatly into grooves, and one slat fitted atop another with a scientifically formulated glue between, the "sandwiches" are permanently bound under controlled hydraulic pressure. (Please credit: Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.) [Typed on verso] Used WBRE TV 3/7/58, 9-9:30 a.m. 5th & 6th grades; [Gage] & Faber [Handwritten on verso]
Date: 1950
Location: Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3]
Creator: unknown
Collection: Eberhard Faber Pencil Company collection [4]
Subject: Machinery [5]
Pencil works [6]
Pencils [7]
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company [8]
Institution: Brooklyn Historical Society
Medium: Black-and-white photographs (prints)
Rights: RESTRICTED
ID: V1988.35.34
 
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[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Greenpoint+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Eberhard+Faber+Pencil+Company+collection
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/m/Machinery
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Pencil works
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Pencils
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Eberhard Faber Pencil Company