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National Brown-Bag-It Day celebrates the brown paper lunch bags used mainly by schoolboys and schoolgirls in the US. Ironically, the brown paper bag and the way to mass produce it was invented in 1852 by school teacher Francis Wolle.
Wolle and his brother patented their machine on October 26, 1852, and began producing bags as the Union Paper Bag Company.
Additional patents were later filed by others that improved upon the original bag, including female inventor Margret Knight’s 1870 patent that strengthened the bags and made them foldable; Charles Stilwell in 1883 who made the bags with square bottoms, allowing them to stand on their own; and Black American inventor William Purvis, whom further the bag making machine in 1890.
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