Explosive Powder Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This end panel of a 1934 DuPont explosives shipping crate bears the company logo and is marked 50 LBS./Stumping Powder/20% Strength. Today DuPont is known for its wide array of industrial and commercial products, but it was founded in 1802 as an explosive manufacturer. The DuPont Stumping Powder was low-grade dynamite, 20% of the strength of full dynamite, used to remove stumps from farmland.
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: 1979.0441.197A
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.197A
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: 8 in x 12 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm