Biology:Luggage label

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A luggage label, luggage sticker, baggage sticker or baggage label is an adhesive label placed over a traveler's luggage for identification purposes.[1][2][3] Usually issued by hotels, restaurants, railways and cruise companies, they became popular between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century, in the so-called Golden Age of Travel, with the popularization of mass tourism and the development of railroads, ocean liners and eventually of air travel.

A suitcase with several luggage stickers

Aside their utilitary purpose, luggage labels were also a form of advertisement, sporting elaborate designs;[4] after the latter half of the 20th century, their use dwindled, becoming vintage collection items since then.[2]

Forerunner

The Romans used lead luggage lables.[5]

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