page_title: Crayon
section_title: Milton Bradley Co.
hierarchical_section_title: Crayon / American crayon companies / Milton Bradley Co.
caption_attribution_description: English: Standard Crayon Co. crayon ad with pictures substantiating their age and place in crayon history
context_page_description: A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing or drawing. A crayon made of pigment with a dry binder is a pastel; when made of oiled chalk, it is called an oil pastel. A grease pencil or Chinese marker is made of colored hardened grease. There are also watercolor crayons, sometimes called water-soluble crayons.
  Crayons are available at a range of prices and are easy to work with. They are less messy than most paints and markers, blunt, typically non-toxic, and available in a wide variety of colors. These characteristics make them particularly good instruments for teaching small children to draw in addition to being used widely by student and professional artists.
context_section_description: Founded in 1860, the Milton Bradley Company is the oldest game manufacturer in the United States.  They were also instrumental in the promotion of the early kindergarten movement rising up during the late 19th century.  Bradley, inspired by a lecture from Elizabeth Peabody on the teachings of German scholar Friedrich Fröbel concerning education through creative activities, spent much of his life developing and selling products around this pursuit.  Through the Milton Bradley Company, he produced wax crayons for retail as early as 1895 under the Bradley name. In addition to the Bradley line of crayons, they also produced Brodlyne, Copley, Banner, Big Boy, Crayrite, Economo, Embeco, Manual Art, Tru-Tone and Springfield Solid and other brands.  In addition, they produced a series of licensed character crayon products such as Popeye, Mother Goose, Howdy Doody, Little Lulu, Moon Mullins, Lone Ranger, Little Orphan Annie and Sergeant William Preston.  The company was acquired by Hasbro in 1984.
caption: Crayon ad showing two boxes of Standard Crayon products from 1901
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