Fruit growers shipping stencil
Object/Artifact
9.5x4.5" copper stencil used to stencil the dealer's name, E. Todd & Co. and the grower's name, B.S. Williams & Son, Douglas, MI. on the boxes and baskets of fruit that were shipped to Chicago.
An accompanied page of information/research about the above was written by Kit Lane.
2018.49.01
1875 Basket factories
Voss, Mary
1883 - 1900
StencilFruitgrowingPackagingTransportationDouglas, MichiganBasket Factory
4-3/4 in
9-3/4 in
024 Basket Factory, Fruit Exchange, Fruit Growing
024 Basket Factory, Fruit Exchange, Fruit Growing
Poor
Oxidation and structurally fragile with large crack at center of stencil.
Williams, B. S.
Williams, M. B.
Lane, Kit
Status: OK Status By: Mary Voss Status Date: 2018-11-05
11/05/2018
10/29/2021