Matches Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Diamond Match Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained Birds-Eye brand matches that were produced by the Diamond Match Company of Akron, Ohio during the early 20th century. The crate contained 100 boxes of strike anywhere protected tip matches. In 1910, the Diamond Match Company patented the first nonpoisonous match (produced without phosphorous), before releasing the patent at the request of President McKinley in 1911 for the “good of mankind.”
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: 1979.0441.270
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.270
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 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 36.83 cm