General Box Company stock certificate 1961 (Illinois) 

Wooden and corrugated containers company. Nice vignette of an American Eagle with shield and laurel branches. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1961. Measuring approximately 11 x 7.5 inches. 

The General Box Company was incorporated in Chicago IL in 1922 with headquarters on 500 N. Dearborn Street. Its best-known product was "Never-Bust" Bottle Boxes. Later moved to Des Plaines. Operated under General Box until 1969. Over 50% of the stock was purchased by Inland Container in 1958.

The company manufactured. and sold shipping containers, consisting of wooden wire bound and corrugated boxes, and crates and pallet containers for packaging consumer and industrial materials. Subsidiaries include Embry Box Division (Louisville, Kentucky), Forrester-Nace Box Company (Kansas City, Missouri), and Republic Box Division (New Orleans, Louisiana). It later expanded throughout the country buying smaller container makers.

Interesting historical tie:
In late 1953, Chavez was laid off by the General Box Company in San Jose .He then began as an organizer, traveling around California setting up other chapters. Cesario Estrada Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Ideologically, his worldview combined left-wing politics with Catholic social teachings.

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