April 1, 2025
Duryeas' Starch Wooden Box Glen Cove, NY
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Wooden Duryeas' Starch Box - 6 Lbs. Description : This auction features an box from the days before cardboard packaging. Both sides have "Duryeas' Satin Gloss Starch" printed on them. One end has a paper label showing 5 women working at laundry. I found the following blurb about the company is a history of Glen Cove: "The Industrial Revolution did not reach Glen Cove until the 1850's around the same time the Duryea Corn Starch Manufacturing Company relocated their main plant from Oswego to Glen Cove . The Duryea Starch Works sprawled over more than an acre and employed nearly 600 people. Employees lived in company-owned apartments, bought their food and clothes from the company store, and read the Glen Cove Gazette , which was printed at least part of its life on a press owned by the starch company. The Starch Works was not well loved by those Glen Cove residents who had no financial interest in it. The volumes of waste produced by converting corn into corn starch was flushed into Glen Cove Creek, w it settled to form a layer of putrefying, obnoxious-smelling organic detritus. The smell, pervasive in both the Glen Cove Landing and Sea Cliff, depending upon the wind, was irritating to resident and visitor alike." The box is 10 1/4 inches long by 6 5/8 wide by 5 5/8 inches tall. The corners are done with what is known as a box joint,
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