Corned Beef Shipping Crate
Corned Beef Shipping Crate
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- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate end panel is imprinted with the “Libby’s” script of the manufacturing firm Libby, McNeil, and Libby. Archibald McNeil and Charles and Arthur Libby founded the company in 1868. In 1875, Libby’s began to pack their meats into pyramidal shaped cans. These cans were extremely popular among consumers, and Libby’s became one of the country’s biggest producers of canned meats. The company was purchased by Nestle in 1971.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Libby, McNeill & Libby
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 7 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 16.51 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.353
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.353
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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