Biscuit Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: American Biscuit and Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side originally contained biscuits manufactured by the American Biscuit & Manufacturing Company of New York, New York during the late 19th century. The crate label has the company’s trademark image of a colorful parrot on the left. Founded in 1890, the American Biscuit & Manufacturing Company merged with the New York Biscuit Company in 1898 to form the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) now one of the largest bakeries in the world.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Saugerties
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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: 1979.0441.338
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.338
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 11 1/4 in x 23 in; 28.575 cm x 58.42 cm