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Scripto Pen Company (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Scripto Pen Company photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS204
Scope and Content This collection features photographs of the Scripto Pen Company plant and offices in Atlanta. The images document various operations, including drafting, machinery use, and assembly line work being carried out by staff. The collection also includes a photograph of the Scripto Pen Company building exterior and group portraits of personnel. Of particular note is an awards ceremony in which President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) presents Scripo executives with the Presidents "E" Award, an award...
Dates: approximately 1924-1968, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Scripto Pen Company photographs

Scripto Pen Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1013
Scope and Content This collection contains personnel and marketing records, and documentation of the labor strike at the Scripto Pen Company. The early personnel records include employee names, start dates, previous employment, and wage rates. Volumes of marketing publications and advertisements illustrate trade and commercial print advertisements Scripto Pen Company used for their writing instruments and disposable lighters. National and local newspaper clippings included in the collection relate to the...
Dates: 1923-1981, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Scripto Pen Company records

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African Americans -- Employment -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Assembly-line methods -- 1920-1930 1
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 1
Factories -- Employees -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Factories -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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Factory and trade waste -- Environmental aspects -- Georgia 1
Factory and trade waste -- Management 1
Houston Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Labor unions -- Georgia 1
Laborers -- 1920-1930 1
Laborers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Pencils 1
Pens -- United States -- History 1
Strikes and lockouts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Strikes and lockouts -- Office equipment and supplies industry 1
Writing -- Materials and instruments 1
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