Wax Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Standard Oil Company of New York
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side originally contained Parowax, made by the Standard Oil Company of New York during the early 20th century. Parowax was Standard Oil’s proprietary name for paraffin wax that could be “used for sealing Jelly Glasses, Fruit Jars, Bottles, etc.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York
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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: 1979.0441.305
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.305
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 23 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 59.055 cm