Photos of the Parker Pen exhibit, on display at Janesville's Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center.
From left, Helen Diotte, former Rock County Historical Society executive director Madge Murphy, society employee Laurel Fant and Cere Turner share Parker Pen stories in the new Parker Pen Room at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center in Janesville. Diotte's husband, Alfred, was a Parker Pen executive for many years. Turner is Diotte's daughter.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Among the items on display in the Parker Pen Room at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center in Janesville is this photo of workers at the Arrow Park facility.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
An old print advertisement for Parker Pen's 'Lucky Curve' is on display at the museum.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
An old advertising clock from Parker Pen on display in the Parker Pen room at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center in Janesville.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
The pen used by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to sign the 1945 Japanese surrender agreement toward the end of World War II can be seen at the museum.
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The Parker Pen room at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center in Janesville has over 135 Parker pens on display.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
1894 Lucky Curve: Parker Pen's first success started with this pen that revolutionized the fountain pen and established Parker pens as the "clean" pen because of a new patented feed that kept ink from soiling the fingers of its user. An immediate success, the pen sold until the 1920s.
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1935 Vacumatic self-fill: This pen has a sacless filling system and a new Arrow pocket clip.
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1927 Mandarin Yellow Duofold : The Duofold, first introduced in 1921, caught the public's fancy in a big way and was an offshoot of Parker's Jack Knife Safety line. The Duofold transformed Parker from one company among many into the undisputed market leader. It’s bold color scheme also put to rest the belief that the public preferred their pens plain and black and set the stage for widespread adoption of color celluloid pens.
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100 millionth Jotter: In 1954, Parker introduced the Jotter, the world’s first quality ball pen. More than 3.5 million of these pens sold during the first year of production.
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The Parker Pen Room at the RCHS Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center has a great variety of Parker Pen memorabilia on display.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
A trophy in the shape of a giant pen lists names of Parker Pen employees referred to as Penettes. The trophy is in the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum's Parker Pen room in Janesville.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
The closest that the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum currently can get to a very rare Parker "Snake "pen is this photo on display just outside of the Parker Pen room at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center. The pens are worth well over $10,000 dollars today, from a original 1905 list price of $8.
