Agriculture - Overview
From butter churns to diesel tractors, the Museum's agricultural artifacts trace the story of Americans who work the land. Agricultural tools and machinery in the collections range from a John Deere plow of the 1830s to 20th-century cultivators and harvesters. The Museum's holdings also include overalls, aprons, and sunbonnets; farm photographs; milk cans and food jars; handmade horse collars; and some 200 oral histories of farm men and women in the South. Prints in the collections show hundreds of scenes of rural life. The politics of agriculture are part of the story, too, told in materials related to farm workers' unions and a group of artifacts donated by the family of the labor leader Cesar Chavez.
"Agriculture - Overview" showing 147 items.
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[Overview of workers in a field. Stereo photonegative,] 1906
- Notes
- Company catalog card included. Very thin image (underexposed?)
- Currently stored in box 1.1.2 [158], moved from [62]
- "C.W.W. N.Y. '06" on envelope. Orig. no. 334-B
- Date
- 1906
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- White, C. W
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 158
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Workers in a field. Stereo photonegative,] 1906
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.1.2 [158], moved from [62]
- Company catalog card included. Orig. no. 335-2. Very thin image
- "C.W.W. N.Y. '06" on envelope
- Date
- 1906
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- White, C. W
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 159
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Apple Crate Label
- Description (Brief)
- Labels are an important marketing device. They often go beyond merely identifying contents and are designed to help establish brand distinction and generate customer loyalty for a largely interchangeable product.
- This Blue Larkspur brand apple crate label was used by the Heller Brothers Company Inc. of Wenatchee, Washington after 1928. The lithographed label was produced by Crocker-Union of Seattle, Washington. The blue label features an image of the stallion Blue Larkspur wreathed in flowers on the left of the label. Blue Larkspur was a race horse who competed from 1928-1930, and was named the American Horse of the Year in 1929.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Heller Bros. Co., Inc.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.026
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.026
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Homenta Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This Homenta shipping crate side was used by the New York Drug Concern of New York City during the early 20th century. Homenta was a mixture of water, menthol, thymol, ammonia, sugar, water, and alcohol that the New York Concern advertised as a remedy for catarrh (mucus) and colds.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- New York Drug Concern
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.157
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.157
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Oil Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side contained Gargoyle brand “A” mobiloil that was made by the Vacuum Oil Company of New York City, New York in the early 20th century. The Vacuum Oil Company merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York in 1931 and marketed the Gargoyle Mobiloil brand for several years before Mobil became the new company name and Pegasus the new logo. The crate contained ten one-gallon cans of oil.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Vacuum Oil Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.204
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.204
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Ink Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This is a Sanford Ink Company shipping crate side. The Sanford Manufacturing Company was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1857. The company relocated to Chicago in 1866 and became a large producer of ink and glue products in its early years before focusing on ink and being renamed the Sanford Ink Company in 1940. Sanford introduced the Sharpie marker in 1964, which went on to become one of its best selling products. Sanford was purchased by the Newell Company in 1992.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Sanford Corporation
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.226
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.226
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Mucilage Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This is a side panel of a Sanford Manufacturing Company shipping crate that contained Sanford glue (mucilage). The Sanford Manufacturing Company was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1857. The company relocated to Chicago in 1866 and produced ink and glue in its early years before solely manufacturing ink products and renaming itself the Sanford Ink Company in 1940. Sanford was purchased by Newell Company in 1992.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Sanford Corporation
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.260
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.260
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Chewing Gum Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Beech-Nut Packing Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.274
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.274
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Abrasives Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side contained abrasive cloth manufactured by the Carborundum Company of Niagara Falls, New York. The Carborundum Company was founded in 1891 after Edward Goodrich Acheson synthetically produced silicon carbide (carborundum) in an attempt to create diamonds. Silicon carbide was originally used as an abrasive in products like sandpaper, but is found in a variety of other implementations like bulletproof vests and car brakes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Carborundum Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.275
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.275
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Ink Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This is a Sanford Ink Company shipping crate end. The Sanford Manufacturing Company was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1857. The company relocated to Chicago in 1866 and became a large producer of ink and glue products in its early years before focusing on ink and being renamed the Sanford Ink Company in 1940. Sanford introduced the Sharpie marker in 1964, which went on to become one of its best selling products. Sanford was purchased by Newell Company in 1992.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Sanford Corporation
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.283
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.283
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
