A&P Grocery Bag

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Object Details

Description

The grassroots environmental movements that sprang up in America in the 1960s and early 1970s gave rise to new organizations and campaigns urging the conservation of natural resources. The A&P Grocery chain used this paper shopping bag promoting energy conservation in the mid-1970s demonstrating that even corporate America responded to the call for increased environmental awareness.

date made

1973

ID Number

1977.0700.16

accession number

1977.0700

catalog number

1977.0700.16

Object Name

shopping bag

grocery bag

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

brown; red (overall color)

Measurements

overall: 17 in x 12 in x 7 in; 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm x 17.78 cm

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Political History: Political History, General History Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Environmental History

Exhibition

American Enterprise

Exhibition Location

National Museum of American History

Data Source

National Museum of American History

referenced

Conservation

Subject

Environmental Movement