Growing Up Parker: My Life in Pens by Geoffrey Parker
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- Creator
- National Postal Museum
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- 5,952
- Video Title
- Growing Up Parker: My Life in Pens by Geoffrey Parker
- Description
- Geoffrey Parker, great grandson of George S. Parker, founder of Parker Pen Company, shares memories of discussing pen design around the dinner table in Janesville, Wisconsin. From the creative business techniques that made the company so successful worldwide to the shocking switch to colorful inks, Parker's thoughtful talk is both pen history and family history. -- May 29, 2010, National Postal Museum.
- Video Duration
- 54 min 21 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Smithsonian "postal museum" "National Postal Museum" stamps philately post office history
- Uploaded
- 2010-06-14T19:06:58.000Z
- Type
- Conversations and talks
- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNPM
- National Postal Museum
- YouTube Channel
- SmithsonianNPM
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Postal service;Letter mail handling;Stamp collecting
- Record ID
- yt_t-PN_IHj1yg
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