A Pasteboard Crown - 1922 was released on: USA: 16 April 1922
A pasteboard form for making boxes etc.
cardboard, pasteboard, cartoon, painting or drawing on strong paper
In Publisher, a pasteboard is the area outside the printable page where you can place objects, such as text or graphics, that you want to keep separate from the main content but still accessible if needed. It is useful for storing elements that are not part of the final design layout but might be useful for reference or future use.
A "pasteboard mask" refers to a fake or artificial persona that an individual might adopt to conceal their true identity or intentions. In "Moby Dick," this phrase is used metaphorically to describe how individuals, like Captain Ahab, might hide their inner struggles or desires behind a façade of strength or determination.
The cast of A Pasteboard Crown - 1922 includes: Robert Elliott as Stewart Thrall Evelyn Greeley as Sybil Lawton Jane Jennings as Mrs. Lawton Dora Mills Adams as Claire Morrell Albert Roccardi as William Buckley Gladys Valerie as Edna Thrall Eleanor Woodruff as Cora Manice
They're small, odd shaped, irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard or wood or the like that usually have a small part of a picture on them, that when fitted together form a design or picture.
This is a normally used material (called dry wall in the US) Its been in use since the late 1960s as the technologies improved. pripr to this the wall were lath and mortor.
It used holes punched in pasteboard, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that compose the design of the textile are strung together in order.
Alessandro Volta was the Italian physicist who built on of the first electric batteries in 1800. The pile was made of up of zinc and copper plates. That has pieces of leather or pasteboard dampened with vinegar placed in between.
It comes from French carton and Italian cartone=strong, heavy paper, pasteboard, thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper," augmentive of Latin carta= paper, whose origin is the Greek χάρτης (in ancient Gr. pronounced as khartes).
In "Moby-Dick," Ahab's metaphor of "pasteboard masks to visible objects" means that he sees the things he encounters as false or deceptive representations that hide the true nature of reality. He views the world as a facade that conceals deeper truths and seeks to uncover these hidden meanings.