Shrimp Shipping Crate

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Object Details

referenced business

G. W. Dunbar's Sons Inc.

Description (Brief)

This is the label from a Dunbar’s shrimp shipping crate. G.W. Dunbar’s Sons Inc. was founded in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1881 as a seafood packaging and distribution company. The crate label caught customer’s attention with its bright red color and touted the company’s quality by showing silver medals awarded at the World Exposition in Paris and London in 1883, as well as its Pan-American Exposition gold medal in Buffalo in 1901.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

L.E. Leininger

ID Number

1979.0441.030

accession number

1979.0441

catalog number

1979.0441.030

Object Name

crate label

Physical Description

paper (crate label material)

wood (substrate material)

Measurements

crate label: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 26.67 cm

Place Made

United States: Louisiana, New Orleans

United States: Mississippi, Biloxi

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Work and Industry: Agriculture

Food

Crate Labels

Agriculture

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-ff95-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1361668