Explosive Powder Shipping Crate
Explosive Powder Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This end panel of a DuPont explosives shipping crate bears the company’s oval logo and is marked Pacific Northwest Products. Today DuPont is known for its wide array of industrial and commercial products, but it was founded in 1802 as an explosive manufacturer. This crate likely contained stumping powder, as DuPont manufactured a specific brand of explosives for the Pacific Northwest.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 8 in x 12 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.197B
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.197B
- 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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