The American Lead Pencil Company began operating in New York City around 1861 and started to manufacture the Venus line of drawing pencils in 1905. By 1939 the firm was advertising itself as the ...

WHEN PENCIL MET ERASER Authors: Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. Illustrator: German Blanco Macmillan Imprint, $17.99, ages 4 to 9 The straight-ahead plot of “When Pencil Met Eraser” hi… ...

The pencil eraser was patented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Hymen Lipman, a Jewish immigrant from Kingston, Jamiaca, on this day in history, March 30, 1858.