Shipping Box for Vanilla Extract, 1906-1920

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Artifact Overview

Workers at Will Currier's shoe shop in Newton, New Hampshire, used a variety of tools, fasteners and bits of leather, wood, and metal to make shoes. Small wooden boxes, like this one, helped organize the shop and kept needed material close at hand.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Box (Container)

Date Made

1906-1920

Location

at Henry Ford Museum in Made in America

Object ID

28.997.186

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Wood (Plant Material)
Paper (Fiber product)

Dimensions

Height: 6.125 in
Width: 5 in
Length: 6.25 in

Inscriptions

on label on side: GOOD / VALUE / EXTRACT / PURE / VANILLA MANUFACTURED BY FRANK E. HARRIS UNDER THE / FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30TH, 1906. SERIAL NUMBER 6566. MANUFACTURED AT / THE COR. OF STATE AND / LEWIS STS. / BINGHAMTON, N.Y.
Shipping Box for Vanilla Extract, 1906-1920