Christopher Payne, General Pencil Archived 2017

Bags of charcoal, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Rotating drums for mixing graphite, clay, chalk, and charcoal, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Hosing down sludge filters, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Sludge filters, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Cake of charcoal or graphite, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Charcoal extruding, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Cutting charcoal sticks, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Charcoal extrusions to be recycled, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Graphite extrusions to be recycled, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Heating cores in oven, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Ceramic pots with graphite cores cooling after oven heating, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Checking diameter of cores after oven heating, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Graphite cores after oven heating, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Removing cores from ceramic pots after oven heating, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Graphite cores, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Graphite cores before waxing, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Waxed graphite cores, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

White pastel mixer, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

White pastel extruding, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pastel extruding, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pastel extrusions, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Maria and Milagro, sisters, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Albert, 40 plus year veteran employee, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pastel cores, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pastel sticks, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Hand laying of pastel cores into wood slats, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Hand laying of pastel cores into wood slats, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Lead layer, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Slats clamped for glue drying, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Machined pencil slats, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Half machined pencil slat, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Cutting machine, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pencil painting, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Pencil painting, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Paint conveyor, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Red/blue pencils before dipping, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Red/blue pencil paint dipping machine, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Ferrules, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Erasers, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Tipping machine, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Tipping machine, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Tipping machine, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Maryann, employee since 1962, at the foil stamper, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Foil stamping dies, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Sanding belt for pencil sharpening, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Final cleaning, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Boxing pencils in shipping department, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Charcoal stick packaging, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

Finished drawing pencils, General Pencil, Jersey City NJ

General Pencil, Jersey City NJ