[PW] ? Size of a pork-barrel

[Carolyn Scheer]

For what it's worth....... the 1897 Sears & Roebuck Catalog sold pork 
products in barrels -- 160 lbs. for a full barrel, the illustration 
shows a traditional wooden barrel.  "From Chicago's best packing 
houses, guaranteed fresh and sweet upon shipping."  No mention of how 
it might arrive if the freight car got shifted onto a siding and sat 
there a while.

At 12:17 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote:
>Would anyone happen to know if a nineteenth century pork barrel was 
>of a standard size and, if so, what it was.
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