Explosive Powder Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This end panel of a DuPont explosives shipping crate bears the company’s oval logo and is marked Pacific Northwest Products. Today DuPont is known for its wide array of industrial and commercial products, but it was founded in 1802 as an explosive manufacturer. This crate likely contained stumping powder, as DuPont manufactured a specific brand of explosives for the Pacific Northwest.
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: 1979.0441.197B
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.197B
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 in x 12 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm