2009.13.1, commercial sack
Canvas
Modern Industrial Society (1926?)
Found in collections
Photograph by B. Bernard
When found, this canvas sack was used to hold artifacts. It was replaced
with more appropriate archival materials, but added to the collections
rather than discarded. Why? Litharge is a lead oxide used for various
purposes but a bag of this size was most likely used during assaying (click
here for another object related to the
same industrial process). As such, the sack is part of the nation's
mining heritage, but the sort of thing that almost never survives
except through some unlikely circumstance (such as being used to store
artifacts in a museum). Our date estimate is based on
the "4/26" printed on the lower left of the sack.
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