Seventeen issues of The All American newsletters from the American Crayon Company are housed in
the business collections of the Sandusky
Library Archives
Research Center.
The newsletters covered company news, information about the managers and
employees of the company, photographs, poems, and travel articles. This item
from the June 1922 issue paid tribute to the company
president, L.L. Curtis, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
George Koch described the Art Department
of the Kroma division of the American Crayon Company in the July 1925 issue. He stated that the
view from his office, which faced Sandusky
Bay, often gave him
inspiration for his work. The employees in the Art Department
created cover designs for the various styles and sizes of products.
In this article by C.W. Hord, who was with the American
Crayon’s sales department for many years, he describes the process by which “Old Faithful” was chosen as a trademark for the company.
Though the American Crayon company is no longer in
operation, for decades the company provided jobs locally and in other states
for hundreds of individuals. To view the historic newsletters, which range in
date from 1921 through 1925, visit the Sandusky Library
Archives Research
Center.
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Dorene thanks for this. I had no idea of the collection. Great local history behind the ok’d faithful trademark. Are any of the newsletters available online? A couple years ago I donated AMC and family related correspondence (Curtis- Whitworth) to the Library Archives
I remember visiting the crayon factory as a kid growing up in Sandusky Ohio. It probably was a Brownie or Girl Scout outing.
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