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Box for Adams' Improved Blue & Orange Prints Best Indigo Dye, location unknown, 1851

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1851

GUSN

GUSN-253200

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Description

The container lid has a red, white, blue and green label with an image of John Quincy Adams. The box is white with two brown bands. The lid is yellow with a pattern around the sides.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
packaging
dye
presidents
portraits
boxes (containers)

Physical Description

1 box ; 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 x 6 inches

Collection Code

EP002

Collection Name

Ephemera collection, 2011 donation

Reference Code

EP002.02.021

Image Dimensions

4 1/2 x 7 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Record Details

Material Type

boxes (containers)

Other People

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Description Level

Item

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