Chocolate Shipping Crate
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Object Details
- referenced business
- The Hershey Company
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate end is imprinted with “Hershey’s Chocolate and Cocoa, Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.” The Hershey Chocolate Company was founded by Milton Hershey in 1894 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1900, Hershey’s production of milk chocolate began in earnest. Through Hershey’s new methods of mass-production, milk chocolate became affordable to the public for the first time.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.363
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.363
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- Object Name
- crate label
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 6 1/2 in x 14 in; 16.51 cm x 35.56 cm
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1362002
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-f66a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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