Baking Powder Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Calumet Baking Powder Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shipping crate end is imprinted with “Calument Baking Powder” and the slogan “The World’s Greatest Baking Powder.” William Wright formulated Calumet Baking Powder in Chicago, Illinois in 1889. The powder was named after Calumet City, a town near Chicago. Calumet was also the Native American term for peace pipe. Calumet was bought by General Foods bought in 1929.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Food
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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: 1979.0441.362
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.362
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 in x 20 in; 27.94 cm x 50.8 cm