Flypaper Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Tanglefoot
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate, imprinted Tanglefoot Flypaper Company, originally contained 5 boxes of 250 double sheets. Tanglefoot was manufactured by the O&W Thum Company, founded in 1885. Tanglefoot was exceptionally popular because the company’s formula of castor oil, resins, and wax did not soak through the paper and stayed sticky long enough for it to be stocked on store shelves. Previously, the adhesive had to be applied to the paper when it was sold.
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: 1979.0441.259
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.259
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: 5 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 23.495 cm