Tobacco Shipping Crate
Tobacco Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side contained tobacco from Middletown, Ohio manufactured by the P. Lorillard Company during the late 19th century. The wooden crate side features an extensive block of text that claims that the “manufacturer of this tobacco has complied with all the requirements of law” and warns against re-using to crate to ship tobacco.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- P. Lorillard Company
- Place Made
- United States: Ohio, Middletown
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 3 in x 12 in; 7.62 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.174
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.174
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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