Tobacco market basket
notes: label: Description
content: This basket was use for tobacco culture and sale in Maryland. It is made from roughly split wood slats woven together. There are 9 slats in one direction and 7 facing the opposite, woven together with 4 slats placed diagonally across the bottom corners and nailed from the bottom to hold the pieces together. The nail ends are bent inward on the inner portion of the basket. The ends of the slats curved upward to a rim constructed of more slats bent to form an inner and outer rim. There are the remains of black paint on the outside edge of the rim, as well as the number "2609" written in white paint at each corner.
label: Description
content: This basket was donated by Frank Robinson, whose family owned and operated tobacco farms in Maryland. According to him this basket was used at the Triangle Tobacco Warehouse in Wayson’s Corner, Anne Arundle County, which is now out of business.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Franklin A. Robinson, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0009.02
label: accession number
content: 2000.0009
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0009.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tobacco Market Basket
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 105 cm x 105 cm x 13.8 cm; 41 5/16 in x 41 5/16 in x 5 7/16 in