Slate Pencils, circa 1875 - The Henry Ford

In the nineteenth century, schoolchildren used slates to practice handwriting and arithmetic without wasting precious paper. Slate pencils were made of soapstone or softer pieces of slate rock, sometimes wrapped in paper like this one. Many students remember the sound of the slate pencil -- like nails on a chalkboard. In the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, chalk was used instead.

original NOT Paperback - drawing OR sketch OR painting

Dip Pen, circa 1890 - The Henry Ford

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Henry Ford Portrait 1919, Restored & Colourised By Lord Henfield