Ammunition Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Western Cartridge Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side originally contained loaded paper shot shells manufactured and loaded by the Western Cartridge Company of East Alton Illinois during the early 20th century. The Western Cartridge Company was founded in 1898 as a subsidiary of the Olin Corporation, which it remains today.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Illinois, East Alton
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Food
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content: Crate Labels
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: L.E. Leininger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0441.368
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.368
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 8 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 38.735 cm