Food Product's Shipping Crate
Food Product's Shipping Crate
- 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. Libby’s became one of the country's biggest producers of canned meats in vegetables in the early 20th century. The company was purchased by Nestle in 1971.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Libby, McNeill & Libby
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 7 in x 15 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 39.37 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.359
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.359
- 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
