Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company

by John W. Kropf

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1629222275

ISBN13:9781629222271

Release Date:November 2022

Publisher:University of Akron Press

Length:146 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 8.6"

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