Chocolate Shipping Crate
Object Details
- referenced business
- Eline's Incorporated
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate side was used by Eline’s Incorporated of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the early 20th century. Eline’s produced chocolate and cocoa during the time when Prohibition outlawed brewing beer in Milwaukee and factories needed to be repurposed.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.145
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.145
- Object Name
- crate label
- Physical Description
- ink (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 8 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in; 22.225 cm x 29.5275 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1361783
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-fbfd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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