Tobacco Crate Label
Tobacco Crate Label
- Description (Brief)
- This side portion of a Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company shipping crate is imprinted with the company’s Star trademark. Liggett and Myers incorporated in 1873 in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1885 Liggett and Myers was the largest manufacturer of plug (chewing) tobacco. In 1898 Liggett and Myers was purchased by the Continental Tobacco Company. Continental was a subsidiary of the American Tobacco Company, specializing in the plug tobacco market.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
- Place Made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 12 in x 12 in; 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.031
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.031
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
