Borden's Evaporated Milk Crate Label
name: label: referenced business
content: Borden Western Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This end panel of a Borden’s Evaporated Milk shipping crate bears the imprint of an eagle. Gail Borden Jr. patented his method for producing condensed milk by vacuum in 1856 and established the New York Condensed Milk Company in 1857. The company changed its name to the Borden Condensed Milk Company in 1899, which was simplified to the Borden Company in 1919.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: 1979.0441.330
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.330
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 9 1/2 in x 19 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 48.895 cm