Soap Shipping Crate
Soap Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side bears a label for Jap Rose brand soap that was manufactured by James S. Kirk & Company of Chicago, Illinois during the early 20th century. The yellow label has an image of a smiling Japanese woman wearing a kimono, with roses growing on a bamboo frame on the right. At this time the Japanese had a reputation for daily bathing and cleanliness which Kirk’s tried to exploit with their branding and advertising.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- James S. Kirk & Co.
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 6 1/4 in x 9 in; 15.875 cm x 22.86 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.257
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.257
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
