Biscuit Box
date: label: date made
content: 1889-1898
notes: label: Description
content: Square, hinged lid, retail box or tin for "KENNEDY'S / CHAMPION / BISCUIT", sold by F. A. Kennedy Company, Cambridgeport, MA. A chromolithographed label covers the box front and features the product name in yellow-bordered, white letters against yellow ears of wheat in a black reserve bordered by red and white lines on a blue ground; small print along bottom states "MANUFACTURED BY THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO." One-piece, flat lid has a wire-rolled rim, a scrolled clasp lock and two hinges. Three-piece box with an inward-folded rim has folded vertical seams inside two corners and a flat bottom with folded edge. Tinned interior.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: retailer's location
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridgeport
label: biscuit manufacturer's location
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.238049.0082
label: catalog number
content: 238049.0082
label: accession number
content: 238049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, biscuit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
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content: ink (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 7 in x 7 in; 22.86 cm x 17.78 cm x 17.78 cm