Corned Beef Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Anglo
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained Anglo brand corned beef, manufactured by the Vestey Group during the first half of the 20th century. South America has a booming beef market in the early 20th century, and William Vestey of Liverpool, England set up a processing plant in Argentina and Uruguay and shipped beef products all over the world. The Anglo brand became popular during World War II, as canned corned beef fed Allied armies in Europe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Argentina
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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: 1979.0441.244
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.244
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: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 18.415 cm