Ammonia Shipping Crate
Ammonia Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This end panel of a Crescent Manufacturing Company Household Ammonia shipping crate is imprinted with the company’s crescent moon trademark. The company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as a supplier of vanilla extract to the Pacific Northwest. Later becoming Crescent Foods Inc., the company made its mark on the consumer landscape in 1905 with its Mapleine imitation maple flavoring which is still sold today by McCormick, which bought Crescent in 1989.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Crescent Mfg. Co.
- Place Made
- United States: Washington, Seattle
- Physical Description
- ink (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 10 1/4 in x 12 in; 26.035 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.370
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.370
- 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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