Big Chief tablet

The Big Chief tablet is a popular writing notebook designed for young children in the United States.

The tablet has a prominent representation of an American Indian man in full headdress on the cover, hence the name "Big Chief".

[2] Western Tablet expanded in the 1920s and moved its headquarters to Dayton, Ohio but most of the manufacturing components remained in St. Joseph.

Usage of the Big Chief peaked in the 1960s when another Westab invention—the spiral notebook—began to claim a bigger market share.

[4] In 2012, American Trademark Publishing of Brookshire, Texas, resumed the production of the Big Chief Writing Tablet.

Western Tablet building in St. Joseph. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The building has been converted into apartments and is known as Mitchell Park Plaza. [ 1 ]