A&P Grocery Bag
date: label: date made
content: 1973
notes: label: Description
content: The grassroots environmental movements that sprang up in America in the 1960s and early 1970s gave rise to new organizations and campaigns urging the conservation of natural resources. The A&P Grocery chain used this paper shopping bag promoting energy conservation in the mid-1970s demonstrating that even corporate America responded to the call for increased environmental awareness.
topic: label: referenced
content: Conservation
label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
label: Subject
content: Environmental History
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Environmental History
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0700.16
label: accession number
content: 1977.0700
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0700.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shopping bag
label: Object Name
content: grocery bag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown; red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 12 in x 7 in; 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm x 17.78 cm