Box of Straws
date: label: Date made
content: 1990s
label: Date made
content: 2001
notes: label: Description
content: This is a set of 40 flexible straws in a sealed black cardboard box labelled as 'Richfood Plasticware, Richfood Industries, Richmond, VA.'
label: Description
content: Richfood had its roots during the Depression in 1935 as Richmond Food Stores, a group of independent groceries that purchased cooperatively. Across Virginia (and later the mid-Atlantic) Richfood stores were known for their quality merchandise, reasonable prices and local spin. In the 1950s, they introduced the private label Richfood brand; in 1956 all sorts of products began appearing under the Richfood brands. In 1958, they filed for Richfood as a brand for food distribution.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Richmond
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert A. Friedman, Pamela B. Leeds, Linda A. Reiss, and Judith B. Rosen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0247.17
label: accession number
content: 2001.0247
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0247.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Straws
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 2.4 cm; 7 15/16 in x 3 1/4 in x 15/16 in