Scans of an antique “Crispettes PopCorn Confection” wrapper, a gift from the collection of the artists Betty Cleeland and Kate Ingold. There isn’t a massive amount of information online about Crispettes, but they appear to have been heavily promoted during the 1920s as a type of “get rich quick” opportunity. The Crispettes, from what I can tell, were a compressed, puck-shaped mix of popcorn & maple syrup similar to modern day rice cakes. The wrapper shown here would have held several of them stacked into a cylindrical shape and then rolled up in the wrapping with the ends twisted to close the package.
A Facebook group of Lake Samish History (near Bellingham, Washington) has one of the more detailed accounts of the machines, their promotion, and the ads/ephemera surrounding them.
