Starch Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Crescent Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This end panel of a Crescent Manufacturing Company starch shipping crate is imprinted with the company’s crescent moon trademark. The company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as a supplier of vanilla extract to the Pacific Northwest. Later becoming Crescent Foods Inc., the company made its mark on the consumer landscape in 1905 with its Mapleine imitation maple flavoring. Mapleine is still sold today by McCormick, which bought Crescent in 1989.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: 1979.0441.252
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.252
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 12 3/4 in; 18.415 cm x 32.385 cm