Shrimp Shipping Crate
Shrimp Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This is the label from a Dunbar’s shrimp shipping crate. G.W. Dunbar’s Sons Inc. was founded in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1881 as a seafood packaging and distribution company. The crate label caught customer’s attention with its bright red color and touted the company’s quality by showing silver medals awarded at the World Exposition in Paris and London in 1883, as well as its Pan-American Exposition gold medal in Buffalo in 1901.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- G. W. Dunbar's Sons Inc.
- Place Made
- United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
- United States: Mississippi, Biloxi
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 26.67 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.030
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.030
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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