Mucilage Shipping Crate
Mucilage Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This is a side panel of a Sanford Manufacturing Company shipping crate that contained Sanford glue (mucilage). The Sanford Manufacturing Company was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1857. The company relocated to Chicago in 1866 and produced ink and glue in its early years before solely manufacturing ink products and renaming itself the Sanford Ink Company in 1940. Sanford was purchased by Newell Company in 1992.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Sanford Corporation
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 6 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in; 15.875 cm x 18.0975 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.260
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.260
- 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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