Match Shipping Crate
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
label: date made
content: 1870 - 1879
name: label: referenced business
content: Barber Match Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a patented iron case panel for “Race Match” matches, made by the Barber Match Company. The panel features the portraits of five women of different races titled Indian, Mongolian, Negro, Malay, and Caucasian. The text reads “5 races, 5 colors, 5 cents.” The Barber Match Company was founded in 1864 in Akron, Ohio. In 1881, the Barber Match Company united with eleven other match manufacturers to create the Diamond Match Company, which remains the company’s current name.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Akron
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Agriculture
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: L.E. Leininger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0441.329
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.329
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: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 12 1/2 in x 21 1/2 in x 10 in; 31.75 cm x 54.61 cm x 25.4 cm