Tobacco Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: P. Lorillard Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tobacco shipping crate end is imprinted with the text “Smooth Climax, this box contains 5-plugs-5-20¢ cuts each.” Climax was a brand of plug tobacco manufactured by the P. Lorillard Company in the 1890’s. Plug tobacco is a form of chewing tobacco that is pressed into sheets and kept together by the addition of molasses. The Lorillard Tobacco Company was founded in 1760 by Pierre Abraham Lorillard. It is the United States oldest tobacco company.
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: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: L.E. Leininger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0441.297
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.297
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
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: 3 3/4 in x 13 in; 9.525 cm x 33.02 cm