Business Insider1y
The 5 best school backpacks for students of all ages
Learn more As a high school teacher, I've seen school backpacks in all states of disrepair, so I know how important it is to find a bag that is durable enough to be used day in and day out.
Travel + Leisure3y
The 10 Best Backpack Brands for Travelers, Tested and Reviewed
The Kaslo Backpack Tech is our favorite of the bunch ... L.L.Bean has been innovating on classic forms for over a century. The brand’s school book packs in particular are the prototype for ...
The Atlantic8d
The Invention That Changed School Forever
Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).
The New York Times11d
Murray McCory, 80, Dies; JanSport Founder Created the School Backpack
It is now owned by the VF Corporation, which also owns the North Face and other outdoors brands ... to conceive of what a school campus would even look like without backpacks.
MyNorthwest.com6d
All Over The Map: Forgotten Seattle origins of the JanSport school backpack
Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.
Murray McCory, JanSport founder who created school backpack, dies at 80
Murray McCory, who founded JanSport while a student at UW and whose lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students, died Oct. 7 in Seattle.