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YO1-C093-02

Cloth sugar bag. On one side: "Spreckels Sugar Honey-Dew Brand Fine Granulated For Table and Preserving Spreckels Sugar Co. San Francisco--California 2 lbs.net", on the other: "To Open Bag Face Side with Single Thread and Cut two Stitches at Right H-D" with a small infographic featuring two bags demonstrating how to open the bag. 9"x 6 1/4". Known in the trade as a "pup". According to retired Spreckels plant manager Quinlan, these fabric bags were very strong and sugar could not seep out. They were sold to the grocery market. After the bags were emptied, women would sew curtains and dresses from the larger sized bags. Fabric bags were commonly used until the mid-1940's. After that time sugar was packaged in paper bags except for special orders.