Explosives Shipping Crate
name: label: referenced business
content: Trojan Powder Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Trojan Powder Company of Allentown, P.A. was founded around the turn on the 20th century. The development of dynamite, TNT, and other explosives were important for the building of the nation, as well as for its military applications in World War I. Trojan was important for its discovery of Nitrostarch, which was used in grenades and mortar shells.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Allentown
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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: 1979.0441.339
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.339
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: 10 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 24.13 cm