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[Pencils cut from 'sandwich']

[Pencils cut from 'sandwich']
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Title: [Pencils cut from 'sandwich']
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Individual pencils cut from "sandwich"--here eight pencils are cut apart from "sandwich" slat by high speed cutting dies. The process is called shaping, because this is the operation in which it receives its hexagonal shape. [Typed on verso] Used WBRE TV 3/7/58, 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: V1988.35.35
 
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[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