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Box, Food Storage

Object number2013.16.1 a,b

Manufacturer Clark Bar America, Inc.

OriginPittsburgh, PA

MediumPaper

Credit LineGift of Elaine Linkenheimer

DescriptionRed cardboard candy box with paper advertisement. Box is flattened. Advertisement has full color images of four different candy bars with a holiday message using their names.Dimensions(a) Height: 9.875 ; Width: 11.75; Depth: 2.5
(b) H: 13.875 ; W: 8.5
Marks(a)
Printed in blue and white on top: "CLARK"; in yellow: "Chocolatey Coated Peanut Butter Crunch".

"CLARK BAR AMERICA, INC. / [image of Clark bar superimposed over outline of USA] / 610 Alpha Drive / R.I.D.C. Park / P.O. Box 38008 / Pittsburgh, PA 15238"; "CLARK is a Registered Trademark of Clark Bar America, Inc. / Visit our website - www.clarkbar.com".

"Visit our website / www.clarkbar.com" ; "36-1.75 oz. Bars / (Net Wt. 3 lbs. 15 oz.) 1.786 kg"

(b)
Features images of four different candy bars with a message using their names: "Oh... / ["Yoo-hoo" bar image] / Have a Merry / ["Clark-" bar image] / MAS / And a Truly / ["BUN -" bar image] DERFUL / NEW / YEAR / ["EVERLAST" bar image] -INGLY, / All of Us at Clark Bar America".
Historical NotesClark Bar box. The D. L. Clark Company was founded in 1886 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh, by David L. Clark (1864–1939), an Irish-born candy salesman. The D. L. Clark company was family-owned until sold in 1955 to Beatrice Foods, who sold it in 1983 to the Pittsburgh Food and Beverage Company. The Pittsburgh Food and Beverage Company entered bankruptcy in 1995, and many assets from the D. L. Clark Company, such as the rights to the Clark bar and Zagnut bar, were sold. With some of the remaining assets, Clark Bar America, Inc., was created; this was acquired by Necco (New England Confectionery Company) in 1999 for $4.1 million.

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