Ammonia Shipping Crate
Object Details
- referenced business
- Crescent Mfg. Co.
- 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
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.370
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.370
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Object Name
- crate label
- Physical Description
- ink (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 10 1/4 in x 12 in; 26.035 cm x 30.48 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Washington, Seattle
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1362009
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-f671-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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