Social History — 1900-1932
Packaging, box base
Base of a cardboard box, secured with metal staples used for storing artificial flowers. The Crippleage was established in 1866 by John Groom as the Watercress and Flower Girls' Mission to provide assistance for disabled watercress sellers and flower sellers. Artificial flower making was introduced as a suitable form of training and employment for the girls from 1879. By 1908 over 250 girls worked at the Sekforde Road factory.
- Category:
- Social History
- Object ID:
- 2002.3/3b
- Object name:
- packaging, box base
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- Related places:
Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell, Islington, London [Islington], Islington
- Production date:
- 1900-1932
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 107 mm, L 245 mm, W 165 mm (overall)
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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- Creative commons usage:
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