Baking Powder Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate end is imprinted with “Calument Baking Powder” text and Native American head trademark. 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, and Calumet used the profile of a Native American in a headdress as its trademark. Calumet was bought by General Foods bought in 1929.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Calumet Baking Powder Company
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 8 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 26.67 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.172
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.172
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- subject
- Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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