Shrimp Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: G. W. Dunbar's Sons Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is the label from a Dunbar’s shrimp shipping crate. G.W. Dunbar’s Sons Inc. was founded in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1881 as a seafood packaging and distribution company. The crate label caught customer’s attention with its bright red color and touted the company’s quality by showing silver medals awarded at the World Exposition in Paris and London in 1883, as well as its Pan-American Exposition gold medal in Buffalo in 1901.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
label: Place Made
content: United States: Mississippi, Biloxi
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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: 1979.0441.030
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 26.67 cm