https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/browse?tags=Library+Realia&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&output=atom <![CDATA[Iowa Heritage Digital Collections]]> 2024-03-28T22:19:53+00:00 Omeka https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/76141 <![CDATA[Defender Commerce Steel Pins ]]> 2015-11-09T14:52:18+00:00

Title

Defender Commerce Steel Pins

Description

The success of the pin business eventually led the Oakville Pin Company to be acquired as a part of Scovill Manufacturing Company in 1923. Scovill Manufacturing was known as largest brass manufacturing companies based in Waterbury. For many years, it was the largest manufacturer of brass in the country. While Waterbury was the heart of Brass manufacturing, all pins were made in Oakville. According to some history books, a majority of the employees were women and they often brought their work to the comfort of their homes. Since there were no machines or devices to attach safety pins to the cards, the whole family helped to manually fasten each pin to the cards.

Creator

Scovill Manufacturing Co.

Original Format

Boxed Pins

File Name

Pins.jpg
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/76139 <![CDATA[Skrip Ink ]]> 2015-10-06T11:30:01+00:00

Title

Skrip Ink

Description

The year: 1912. The place: Fort Madison, Iowa. Walter A. Sheaffer takes his grand idea of a pen-filling apparatus that utilizes a lever system and, with his life savings, founds the W.A. Sheaffer company. The physical space of the company is a modest one - the backroom of Mr. Sheaffer's jewelry store - but the vision of the company is much more than modest. Nearly a century later, we continue to offer generation after generation innovative, reliable and stylish writing instruments. These pens are used worldwide by loyal and diverse friends who appreciate elegance and class. We look back to the nostalgic past, to simpler times when a look in the eye and a hand shake was the norm. We look to the abundant future, by redefining the fashion of written communication in our technological world. You have a signature. And Sheaffer gives you the power to show the world what it is.

Creator

Sheaffer. 2015 A. T. Cross Company. All Rights Reserved. Site designed and hosted by York & Chapel.

Source

https://www.sheaffer.com/en/about

Date

2015

Rights

All Rights Reserved. Site designed and hosted by York & Chapel.

Original Format

Glass ink bottle.

File Name

skrip.jpeg
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/76140 <![CDATA[Skrip Ink Jar ]]> 2015-10-06T13:21:01+00:00

Title

Skrip Ink Jar

Description

The year: 1912. The place: Fort Madison, Iowa. Walter A. Sheaffer takes his grand idea of a pen-filling apparatus that utilizes a lever system and, with his life savings, founds the W.A. Sheaffer company. The physical space of the company is a modest one - the backroom of Mr. Sheaffer's jewelry store - but the vision of the company is much more than modest. Nearly a century later, we continue to offer generation after generation innovative, reliable and stylish writing instruments. These pens are used worldwide by loyal and diverse friends who appreciate elegance and class. We look back to the nostalgic past, to simpler times when a look in the eye and a hand shake was the norm. We look to the abundant future, by redefining the fashion of written communication in our technological world. You have a signature. And Sheaffer gives you the power to show the world what it is.

Source

https://www.sheaffer.com/en/about

Publisher

©2015 A. T. Cross Company. All Rights Reserved. Site designed and hosted by York & Chapel.

Date

©2015

Rights

All Rights Reserved. Site designed and hosted by York & Chapel.

Original Format

Ink Jar

File Name

ink.jpg

Repository

State of Iowa Law Library
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