Mucilage Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Sanford Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a side panel of a Sanford Manufacturing Company shipping crate that contained Sanford glue (mucilage). The Sanford Manufacturing Company was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1857. The company relocated to Chicago in 1866 and produced ink and glue in its early years before solely manufacturing ink products and renaming itself the Sanford Ink Company in 1940. Sanford was purchased by Newell Company in 1992.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: 1979.0441.355
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.355
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: 6 3/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 18.0975 cm