Explosives Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Atlas Powder Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained 40% strength Giant Gelatin explosives produced by the Giant Powder Company. The crate is dated June 25, 1951. The explosives were 40% of the strength of full dynamite, and was fume class 1, meaning that the explosives did not give off excessive noxious fumes such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. The crate contained 50 pounds of gelatin.
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: 1979.0441.181
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.181
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: 7 5/8 in x 11 in; 19.3675 cm x 27.94 cm