Crayola Box 1903
"Binney & Smith launched Crayola Crayons in 1903 with refreshing simplicity: eight essential colors housed in a modest box—Black, Brown, Orange, Violet, Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow."
The first Crayola box was designed by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith, and sold for a nickel a box. The word Crayola combines the French word for "chalk" ("craie") with "ola," meaning "oily."
"This Crayola set for ‘young artists’ was one of the earliest produced. Its twenty-eight colors include celestial blue, golden ochre, rose pink, and burnt sienna. The box is marked, ‘No. 51, Young Artists Drawing Crayons, for coloring Maps, Pictures’ and contains twenty two of the original 28 crayons. The rear of the box depicts a girl coloring a piece of art on an easel and lists the crayon colors contained in the box. Both the packaging and the color names and crayon colors change over time reflecting social and cultural trends. "
