Chocolate Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained chocolate produced by Walter Baker & Company Ltd. of Dorchester, Massachusetts during the early 20th century. The crate side features a central image of a woman carrying a tray with a mug and a glass of water. The logo comes from the painting “The Chocolate Girl” by Jean-Étienne Liotard, which the company adopted as its trademark in 1883.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston, Dorchester
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
label: See more items in
content: Food
label: See more items in
content: Crate Labels
label: See more items in
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: 1979.0441.177
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.177
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: 8 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in; 20.6375 cm x 24.13 cm