Jell-O Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Jell-O Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate side originally contained Jell-O manufactured by the Jell-O Company, Inc. of LeRoy, New York during the early 20th century. The crate side warns the owner to “Keep In a Dry Place.”Peter Cooper patented powdered gelatin in 1845. The patent was sold to Pearle B. Wait in 1897, who flavored the gelatin and named the product Jell-O. Two years later Jell-O was sold to Francis Woodward of the Genesee Pure Food Company, who popularized the dessert.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Le Roy
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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: 1979.0441.335
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.335
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (crate label material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 6 in x 14 in; 15.24 cm x 35.56 cm