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Color Capital of the World|John Whitworth Kropf
Color Capital of the World : Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company
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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 and the Ohio town that produced more crayons and paints than anywhere in the world. Winner of the 2023 Local History Publication Award from Bowling Green State University's Center for Archival Collections in the book category Independent Division.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781629222271
  • ISBN-10: 1629222275
  • Publisher: University of Akron Press
  • Publish Date: November 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 146

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