Chocolate Shipping Crate
Chocolate Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side was used by Eline’s Incorporated of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the early 20th century. Eline’s produced chocolate and cocoa during the time when Prohibition outlawed brewing beer in Milwaukee and factories needed to be repurposed.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Eline's Incorporated
- Place Made
- United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 8 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in; 22.225 cm x 29.5275 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.145
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.145
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
