My name is Bob Bolin. I am the Business Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. I am interested in the history of the mechanical pencil industry in Chicago. I am particularly interested in the Autopoint and Dur-O-Lite companies and in their founders and officers. This is a collection of material assembled in support of my research.

This is a collection of working papers. Corrections, comments, and suggestions are welcome. I can be reached at: rbolin2@unl.edu

NOTICES This webpage presents catalogs and other documents offering products for sale as well as guarantees and similar documents. Those documents are presented for historical purposes only. The companies that published those catalogs and issued those guarantees no longer exist. In the last 30 years, the Autopoint product line has been sold several times. The present Autopoint Company cannot be bound by those documents. The current Autopoint Company cannot be expected to repair antique Autopoint pencils. Although the pencils sold by the Autopoint Company resemble older pencils, those products were reengineered in the 1970s. The parts of older pencils are not interchangable with new pencil parts. If you love Autopoint pencils, you can simply buy new pencils from the new Autopoint Company. They are available online at: The Autopoint Company

 

Autopoint Related Documents

• Autopoint Company Catalogs

  1927 Autopoint Catalog
  • 1930 Autopoint Catalog
  • 1936 Autopoint Catalog
  • 1964 Autopoint Catalog
  • 1969 Autopoint Catalog
  • Trademark and Stock Art Catalog

• Autopoint Company Newsletters

  During the 1960s the Autopoint Company published an in-house newsletter called Autographs. Some of the Autographs have been digitized in Adobe Acrobat format. They are available through this link.

• Material Related to Sol Shulman

  Sol Shulman was the president of the Autopoint Company in the 1960s. He has been of great assistance in my pencil research.

  • An Interview with Sol Shulman, June 1999.
  • Photographs supplied by Sol Shulman