Tobacco Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: R. A. Patterson Tobacco Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is an end panel of a Lucky Strike tobacco shipping crate. Founded in 1871, Lucky Strike was manufactured by the R.A. Patterson Tobacco Company. Initially, the company sold Lucky Strike as plug tobacco (chewing tobacco bound together with molasses), but after Patterson was purchased by the American Tobacco Company in 1905 Lucky Strike became their signature cigarette brand.
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: 1979.0441.325
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.325
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: 9 3/8 in x 23 1/2 in; 23.8125 cm x 59.69 cm