Machinery
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McSeer Machinery Co. Interior of workroom at McSeer Machinery Co. in Bush Terminal with several young men working at machines. |
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[A packing machine] Packaging machine--where each box is shaped, filled with a dozen pencils, closed and placed with companion boxes for shipment everywhere. (... |
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[Automatic Packing of Colored Pencils] Automatic packing of colored pencils. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Five-station machine--where fivo perations take place.] Five-station machine--where five operations take place. Shoulder is... |
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[Groved slats receiving lead] Groved slats entering machine to receive lead. [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Kiln used in the Eberhard Pencil Company] Lead Processing--Furnace-kiln where leads are vitrified at 2100 degrees F. Batches in crucibles are... |
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[Lead Cutting] Lead cutting; used WBRE 3/7/58 TV, [Gage] & Faber, 5th & 6th grades [Handwritten on verso] |
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[Machinery used to receive leads] Grooves to receive leads--Eight grooves at a time, half-lead deep, are cut on an exacting machine rumnning 9000... |
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[North side of Ash Street between Manhattan Avenue and Oakland Street.] North side of Ash Street between... |
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[Pencil 'sandwich' clamped for drying] Pencil "sandwich" clamped for drying--with leads rolled neatly into grooves, and one slat fitted... |
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[Pencil Production] A step in the pencil production process. |
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[Pencil Varnishing] Pencil varnishing [Typed on verso] of newly created pencils. |
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[Pencils cut from 'sandwich'] Individual pencils cut from "sandwich"--here eight pencils are cut apart from "sandwich" slat by high speed cutting... |
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[Process of creating the pencil 'lead'] Grooved Slat (right of photo); receiving lead (middle); and other grooved slat (left) to form "... |
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[Sanding machine] High speed sanding machines smooth pencils--six sides are individually treated to give wood satiny smoothness. (Please credit: Eberhard Faber... |
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[Step in making the pencil 'sandwich.' Step in making pencil "sandwich"--with leads in grooves between the slats, the "sandwich" is on the... |
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[The process of branding pencils] Branding Pencils--a specially treated and imprinted India leaf is transposed on the pencil by means of heated dies. (... |
