Series 4: Photographs, circa 1900-circa 1980, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series 4: Photographs, circa 1900-circa 1980, includes photographs of the Greenpoint factory and offices, Manhattan offices, E. Faber's Cedar Mill in Cedar Key, Florida, Sao Paulo, Brazil factory, and the Wilkes-Barre, PA factory. Photographs of the factories depict machinery used in the factory and exterior and interior views. The interior photographs include images of workers on the job, such as the Box and Labeling Department, and images documenting the manufacturing process.
Also included are photographs of store merchandise displays, company gatherings, such as a 1943 sales dinner, and two award ceremonies: Eberhard Faber Day at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and a Board of Directors testimonial presented to Julia T. Faber in 1965.
The scrapbook includes portraits of employees and board members from the 1960s and 1970s, photographs of company gatherings and Eberhard Faber factories and offices in Manhattan, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia. The bulk of photographs in the scrapbook are from the 1960s and 1970s.
Arrangement
This series is mostly arranged chronologically. The scrapbook, which spans years from the 1920s to the 1980s, is placed at the end of the series.
