Flypaper Shipping Crate
Flypaper Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate, imprinted Tanglefoot Flypaper Company, originally contained 5 boxes of 250 double sheets. Tanglefoot was manufactured by the O&W Thum Company, founded in 1885. Tanglefoot was exceptionally popular because the company’s formula of castor oil, resins, and wax did not soak through the paper and stayed sticky long enough for it to be stocked on store shelves. Previously, the adhesive had to be applied to the paper when it was sold.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Tanglefoot
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 5 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 23.495 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.259
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.259
- 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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