Chewing Gum Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Beech-Nut Packing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side contained Beech-Nut brand chewing gum shipped by the Beech-Nut Packing Company of Canajoharie, New York. Beech-Nut was founded in 1890, and produced a variety of food products. In 1910, the company launched its chewing gum brand whose popularity helped them weather the rough economy of the Great Depression.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Canajoharie
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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: 1979.0441.274
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.274
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: 11 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 29.845 cm x 31.75 cm