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41-593: The museum was established on December 12, 1924, when the widow of Cornelius Earle Rumsey donated his collection of Native American artifacts to the City of Riverside. Rumsey, a retired executive of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) , came to Riverside for his health and subsequently developed an interest in Native American artifacts. The museum was originally located in the basement of

82-561: A notable Native American basketry collection; archival collections documenting the two National Historic Landmarks of Riverside (the Mission Inn and Harada House); the nationally respected Clark Herbarium of mounted botanical specimens; artifacts and equipment that represent Riverside's citrus industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and archaeological material from Riverside's Chinatown.  Collections include additional strengths in geology, entomology, and textiles. The museum

123-516: A row at Daytona International Speedway with Nabisco sponsorship. Kraft and Nabisco sponsored a part-time Sprint Cup effort in car #81 driven by Jason Keller and John Andretti and fielded by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Nabisco also sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the 2010 Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway in July 2010 with their Oreo/Ritz brands and Tony Stewart with the Ritz brand in

164-582: A six-story building designed by Wilson Brothers & Company built in 1881, had a structural steel frame and was one of the first buildings in America to use masonry not as structure, but as curtain wall . But at only six stories, it was not considered the world's first skyscraper. Chicago and New York each had some lower height structures using iron framing, but they were not fireproof. Later buildings in Chicago were able to solve these problems by supporting

205-679: Is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey . The company is a subsidiary of Illinois -based Mondelēz International . Nabisco's 1,800,000-square-foot (170,000 m ) plant in Chicago is the largest bakery in the world, employing more than 1,200 workers and producing around 320 million pounds (150 million kilograms) of snack foods annually. Its products include Chips Ahoy! , Belvita , Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers , Teddy Grahams , Triscuit crackers, Fig Newtons , and Wheat Thins for

246-733: Is steward of the National Register Heritage House and the National Historic Landmark Harada House.  Heritage House, an 1891 Queen Anne-style Victorian-era home, has served since 1977 as a Victorian house museum representing life in Riverside in the 1890s, the heyday of Riverside's citrus industry.  Harada House is among the most significant and powerful civil rights landmarks in California.  The site and story of

287-702: The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union , went on strike over disagreements regarding a new labor contract with Nabisco. The National Biscuit Company acquired the Shredded Wheat Company, maker of Triscuit and Shredded Wheat cereal , and Christie, Brown & Company of Toronto in 1928, but all of the Nabisco cookie and cracker products in Canada still use

328-931: The Cereal Partners Worldwide joint venture with Nestlé. Also in 1994, RJR acquired Rose Knox 's Knox gelatin and integrated the Shredded wheat franchise into the Post Foods portfolio. Post continues to sell the product today. In 1995, Nestlé agreed to buy the Ortega Mexican foods business from Nabisco Inc. That same year, RJR-Nabisco also acquired the North American margarine and table spreads business of Kraft foods. This purchase included Parkay, Touch of Butter and Chiffon. In 1998, Nabisco Holdings announced its sale of its margarine and egg substitute business to ConAgra . In 1997,

369-601: The Chicago Loop in 1898, the world's first skyscraper. Pearson & Sons Bakery opened in Massachusetts in 1792, and they made a biscuit called pilot bread for consumption on long sea voyages. In 1889, William H. Moore acquired Pearson & Sons Bakery, Josiah Bent Bakery, and six other bakeries to start the New York Biscuit Company. Chicago lawyer Adolphus Green (1843–1917) started

410-510: The nutritional facts of Planters peanuts to those of potato chips , Cheddar cheese chips, and popcorn . Technically, the commercials complied with United States Food and Drug Administration regulations, and they were allowed to continue. However, as requested by the National Advertising Division , Nabisco agreed to make fat content disclosure more conspicuous in future commercials. The company's A1 Steak Sauce

451-453: The 2010 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway in 2010. Home Insurance Building The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 meters). It

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492-484: The American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company in 1890 after acquiring 40 different bakeries. Then Moore, Green, and John Gottlieb Zeller (1849–1939, founder of Richmond Steam Bakery) all merged in 1898 to form the "National Biscuit Company", and Green was named president. Zeller was president of National Biscuit Company from 1923–1931. Nabisco celebrated its golden anniversary in 1948, and Nabisco had become

533-565: The Baby Ruth and Butterfinger brands, to Nestlé . RJR also sold LU, Belin and other European biscuit brands to Groupe Danone , only reunited in 2007 after Nabisco's present parent, Kraft Foods , bought Danone's biscuit operations for €5.3 billion. In 1994, RJR sold its breakfast cereal business (primarily the Shredded Wheat franchise) to Kraft Foods Inc. and the international licenses to General Mills , which later became part of

574-525: The Harada family embody local, state, national, and international issues of civil and individual rights, democracy, immigration, assimilation, citizenship, and diversity.   After his retirement from teaching at Riverside Junior College , noted naturalist Edmund C. Jaeger served as a curator for the museum and substantially enhanced the botanical collections. Noted anthropologist Christopher Moser also served on staff for many years until 2003. The museum

615-498: The Home Insurance Building as the first skyscraper had been accorded by the time of its centennial in 1985. The Chicago press at the time of its construction did not refer to it as the first skyscraper in Chicago. An 1884 list of buildings considered skyscrapers in Chicago listed three buildings in the city whose final heights would be taller than the Home Insurance Building's, although the Home Insurance Building

656-593: The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus became concerned with an ad campaign for Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts. The initial commercial featured a man and monkey deserted on an island. They discover a crate of Planters peanuts and rejoice in the peanuts' positive health facts. Nabisco made a detailed statement describing how their peanuts were healthier than most other snack products, going as far as comparing

697-649: The National Biscuit Company introduced a snack in a sealed packet called the Peanut Sandwich Packet. They soon added the Sorbetto Sandwich Packet. These allowed salesmen to sell to soda fountains , road stands, milk bars , lunch rooms , and news stands. Sales increased, and the company started to use the name NAB in 1928. The term Nabs today is used to generically mean any type of snack crackers, most commonly in

738-490: The National Register of Historic Places. Over time, the collections grew to an estimated 200,000 artifacts and specimens, including 2,500 linear feet of archives in the disciplines of history, natural history, and Indigenous cultural resources documenting the growth and development of Riverside and the surrounding areas from before its founding as a human settlement until the present.  These collections include

779-604: The United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, and other parts of South America. All Nabisco cookie or cracker products are branded Christie in Canada, after Canadian baker William Mellis Christie . Christie's flagship bakery in Toronto was demolished after Mondelēz shut it down in 2013. Nabisco opened corporate offices as the National Biscuit Company in the Home Insurance Building in

820-463: The brands of Fleishmann's, Blue Bonnet and Parkay had sales of $ 480 million. It also sold its College Inn broth brand to HJ Heinz and its Venezuelan Del Monte operations to Del Monte Foods. In 1999, RJR Nabisco's food and tobacco empire fell apart when they sold its international tobacco division to Japan Tobacco for $ 7.8 billion. In 2000 Nabisco Holdings together with several investors (as Finalrealm) acquired United Biscuits , As part of

861-477: The corporate name by 1971. In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands to form "Nabisco Brands", which merged with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1985 to form RJR Nabisco . Kraft General Foods acquired the Nabisco cold cereals from RJR Nabisco in 1993, and the cereal brands are now owned by Post Holdings . In 1999, Nabisco acquired Favorite Brands International . In 2000, Philip Morris Companies Inc. acquired Nabisco and merged it with Kraft Foods in one of

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902-478: The external masonry entirely on the iron frame, which later became the standard worldwide. Peter B. Wright had constructed such a column in Chicago in 1874. Leroy Buffington of Minneapolis developed a system of using wrought iron to frame buildings. However, the design of the Home Insurance Building, supporting the external masonry entirely on the iron frame, was used more by architects worldwide. Buffington later patented his wrought iron to frame design in 1888, but

943-590: The largest mergers in the food industry. In 2011, Kraft Foods announced that it was splitting into a grocery company and a snack food company. Nabisco became part of the snack-food business, which took the name Mondelēz International . The first use of the name Nabisco was in a cracker brand produced by National Biscuit Company in 1901. The firm later introduced Fig Newtons , Nabisco Wafers, Anola Wafers, Barnum's Animal Crackers (1902), Cameos (1910), Lorna Doones (1912), Oreos (1912), and Famous Chocolate Wafers (1924, which would be discontinued in 2023). In 1924,

984-403: The late William Le Baron Jenney, was the first high building to utilize as the basic principle of its design the method known as skeleton construction and, being a primal influence in the acceptance of this principle, was the true father of the skyscraper, 1932. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago is often considered the world's first skyscraper due to both its design and height; the building

1025-529: The moral and spiritual over the evil and the material". A symbol previously used to represent Christ's redemption of the world. The current update of the familiar Nabisco trademark was designed by American typographer and graphic designer Gerard Huerta , who has created many famous logos for corporate identity and branding as well as the movie and music industries, such as AC/DC 's. From 2002–2005, Nabisco and Kraft jointly sponsored both Dale Earnhardt , Inc., and Roush Racing . Earnhardt Jr. won four races in

1066-552: The name Christie. It also acquired F.H. Bennett Company, maker of Milk-Bone dog biscuits, in 1931. In 1971, Nabisco bought J. B. Williams Co., a privately-owned pharmaceuticals manufacturer. Williams continued to operate as a separate subsidiary . Nabisco sold Williams to Beecham Group in 1982 after nearly a decade of slumping sales. In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands , maker of Planters Nuts, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars, Royal gelatin, Fleischmann's and Blue Bonnet margarines, amongst others. The company

1107-513: The old City Hall building from 1925 through 1948. It then moved to the basement of the current building, originally a Federal Post Office. For many years, the museum shared its site with the city's police department, the U.S.D.A, and, during World War II, the Fourth Air Force. As the museum's collections and exhibitions grew, it expanded to all of the floors in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, its downtown Riverside site earned its place on

1148-422: The sale of "A.2." sauce as well as attorney's fees. Nabisco's trademark is a diagonal ellipse with a series of antenna-like lines protruding from the top ("Orb and Cross" or Globus cruciger ). It forms the base of its logo and can be seen imprinted on Oreo cookies, in addition to Nabisco product boxes and literature. The trademark is derived from a medieval Venetian printer's mark that represented "the triumph of

1189-534: The site of the Home Insurance Building. At least six buildings were demolished to make way for the Field Building , including the Home Insurance Building. In 1932, owners placed a plaque in the southwest section of the lobby reading: This section of the Field Building is erected on the site of the Home Insurance Building, which structure, designed and built in eighteen hundred and eighty four by

1230-461: The southern US. As of July 16, 2021, parent company Mondelēz International made the decision to close the Fair Lawn plant after 63 years forcing the majority of the 600 employees to move on and/or retire, accept jobs with other businesses or transfer within the company. In August 2021, over 1,000 workers at several bakeries and distribution centers throughout the United States, organized under

1271-535: The transaction, United Biscuits acquired Nabisco's European businesses and divested Far East (China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) business to Nabisco. Nabisco became a leading shareholder in United Biscuits (the position that inherited by Kraft Foods until 2006). The Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris) acquired Nabisco (sans Bubble Yum which was sold to Hershey ) in 2000 for about $ 19.2 billion. Philip Morris then combined Nabisco with Kraft. That acquisition

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1312-404: The world's first skyscraper . It had 10 stories and rose to a height of 138 ft (42.1 m); two additional floors were added in 1891, bringing the total to 12 floors, an unprecedented height at the time. The building weighed one-third as much as a masonry building and city officials were so concerned they halted construction while they investigated its safety. In April 1929 the building

1353-634: Was among the first museums in the nation to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). The building was designed in the Neo-Classical style of architecture, as it appeared in Southern California with Mission Revival details and a ceramic tile roof evoking Spanish-style architecture. Nabisco Nabisco ( / n ə ˈ b ɪ s k oʊ / , abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company )

1394-656: Was approved by the Federal Trade Commission subject to the divestiture of products in five areas: three Jell-O and Royal brands types of products (dry-mix gelatin dessert, dry-mix pudding, no-bake desserts), intense mints (such as Altoids), and baking powder. Kraft Foods, at the time also a subsidiary of Altria, merged with Nabisco. In 2006, Nabisco sold its Milk-Bone pet snacks to Del Monte Foods Co. for $ 580 million. Altria spun-off Kraft Food along with its Nabisco subsidiary in 2007. In January 2007, Kraft sold Cream of Wheat to B&G Foods . In 1997,

1435-613: Was completed in 1885, a year after the list. Iron framing of multistory buildings had originated in England in the late 18th century and was able to replace exterior load-bearing walls by 1844, but social movements and legal regulations hindered their use at that time. An example is the Ditherington Flax Mill in England, built in 1797, but it was only five stories tall. The Broad Street Station in Philadelphia,

1476-906: Was in auction with two bidders: F. Ross Johnson , the company's president and CEO, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , a private equity partnership. The company was sold to KKR in what was then the biggest leveraged buyout in history, described in the book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco , and a subsequent film . In 1989, RJR Nabisco Inc. sold its Chun King foods division to Yeo Hiap Seng Limited and Fullerton Holdings Pte. Ltd for $ 52 million to reduce its debt from its $ 24.5 billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. In December 1989, RJR Nabisco sold its Del Monte canned fruits and vegetables business in South America to Polly Peck International PLC . One year later, in 1990 RJR Nabisco sold Curtiss Candy, which owned

1517-404: Was reported as having a 90 percent occupancy rate, compared to an occupancy rate of the surrounding financial district estimated at 96 percent or more. In September 1929 plans were made by Marshall Field's to construct a large office building spanning Adams, Clark, and LaSalle Streets. This building would be constructed and opened in parts, the first part occupying the western part of the lot and

1558-428: Was supported using an iron frame skeleton. It was one of the earliest buildings to use an iron frame skeleton and the tallest to ever do so at the time, rising to ten stories; with an additional two stories added. It was the first multistory building in the United States to largely use iron in its exterior to support the masonry since Badger had constructed similar grain elevators between 1860 and 1862. The status of

1599-485: Was the first tall building to be supported both inside and outside by a fireproof structural steel frame , though it also included reinforced concrete . It is considered the world's first skyscraper. The building was designed in 1884 by Jenney for the Home Insurance Company. Construction began on May 1, 1884. Because of the building's unique architecture and weight-bearing frame, it is considered

1640-605: Was the subject of a suit filed against Arnie Kaye in US District Court on March 13, 1990. Kaye's delicatessen used a homemade sauce called "A2 Sauce," sold in both the International Deli and Stew Leonard's supermarkets in Westport, Connecticut . Summary judgement was rendered on March 18, 1991 by Judge Eginton who found in favor of Nabsico and ordered that they were entitled to recoup all profits from

1681-495: Was then renamed Nabisco Brands, Inc. At that time, it also acquired the Life Savers brand from the E.R. Squibb Company , makers of Bubble Yum & Care-free gum. Commercials were revised as a result of the merger by January 1983. In 1985, Nabisco was bought by R.J. Reynolds , forming "RJR Nabisco". After three years of mixed results, the company became one of the hotspots in the 1980s leveraged buyout mania. The company

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