Evaporated Milk Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Mount Vernon Cream Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained Mount Vernon brand evaporated milk that was produced by the Mount Vernon Cream Company of Mount Vernon, Washington during the early 20th century. The crate contained four dozen cans of evaporated milk. Evaporated and condensed milk was very important to nutrition before refrigeration allowed people to keep fresh milk on hand.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Mount Vernon
label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Seattle
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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: 1979.0441.238
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.238
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: 8 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 31.115 cm