Tobacco Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: R. A. Patterson Tobacco Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a side panel for R.A. Patterson’s seal cut plug tobacco, probably used between 1856 and 1900. R.A. Patterson Tobacco Company was based in Richmond, Virginia and founded in 1856. Patterson is famous for introducing the Lucky Strike brand plug tobacco, and went on to manufacture the popular Lucky Strike brand cigarettes. The Patterson Tobacco Company was purchased by the American Tobacco Company in 1905.
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: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: L.E. Leininger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0441.364
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.364
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: 9 in x 21 in; 22.86 cm x 53.34 cm