Tobacco Shipping Crate
name: label: maker
content: P. Lorillard Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This 1890s tobacco shipping crate side is imprinted “P. Lorillard Company, Climax Tobacco.” Climax was a brand of plug (chewing) tobacco manufactured by the P. Lorillard Company begining in the 1870s. Plug tobacco is a form of chewing tobacco that is pressed into sheets and held together by molasses. The P. Lorillard Company was founded in 1760 by Pierre Lorillard I, and is the United States oldest tobacco company.
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: 1979.0441.218
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.218
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 13 in; 10.16 cm x 33.02 cm