Explosives Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Hercules Powder Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side originally contained Hercules brand explosives powder. The Hercules Powder Company was spun off of the Dupont Corporation in 1912 as a result of the federal antitrust case. Hercules Powder was well known for its production of smokeless powders, and manufactured the powder for a variety of ammunitions. There is an illustration of the mythical character of Hercules on the crate side, with his iconographic club and lion skin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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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: 1979.0441.185
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.185
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 9 in x 12 in; 22.86 cm x 30.48 cm