Shipping Box for Vanilla Extract, 1906-1920
THF121944 / 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
Creators
Place of Creation
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.
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Related Artifacts
ArtifactCurrier Shoe Shop
In the late nineteenth century, this small shoe shop located in Newton, New Hampshire, was part of a larger factory system. The owner, Will Currier, received cut leather pieces from a factory in nearby Haverhill, Massachusetts. He and two workmen sewed these pieces together to create a finished shoe. The three could make about sixty-five pairs of shoes a day.