Evaporated Milk Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Borden Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This end panel of a Borden’s Evaporated Milk shipping crate bears the imprint of the company’s stylized Lady Liberty logo, who made her first appearance on Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Milk in 1914. Gail Borden Jr. patented his method for producing condensed milk by vacuum in 1856 and established the New York Condensed Milk Company in 1857. The company changed its name to the Borden Condensed Milk Company in 1899, which was simplified to the Borden Company in 1919.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1979.0441.163
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.163
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 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 31.115 cm