Family & Social Life - Overview
Donations to the Museum have preserved irreplaceable evidence about generations of ordinary Americans. Objects from the Copp household of Stonington, Connecticut, include many items used by a single family from 1740 to 1850. Other donations have brought treasured family artifacts from jewelry to prom gowns. These gifts and many others are all part of the Museum's family and social life collections.
Children's books and Sunday school lessons, tea sets and family portraits also mark the connections between members of a family and between families and the larger society. Prints, advertisements, and artifacts offer nostalgic or idealized images of family life and society in times past. And the collections include a few modern conveniences that have had profound effects on American families and social life, such as televisions, video games, and personal computers.
"Family & Social Life - Overview" showing 89 items.
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Astronaut Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic and glass thermos bottle depicts colorful scenes of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon on all exterior surfaces. This bottle is the companion to the Astronaut lunch box, object #2001.3087.14.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1969
- ID Number
- 2001.3087.14.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3087
- catalog number
- 2001.3087.14.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Stars and Stripes Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 19970. The botte has a red plastic, screw-on cup lid and red plastic, screw-on stopper. Large white stars on a blue background and red and white vertical stripes around the sides evoke the American flag. The bottle is a companion to the Stars and Stripes lunch box, object number 2001.3087.17.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1970
- maker
- Aladdin Industries Incorporated
- ID Number
- 2001.3087.17.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3087
- catalog number
- 2001.3087.17.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Orbit Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This tin, plastic and glass thermos bottle was manufactured by Thermos in 1963, and is the companion bottle to lunch box object number 2001.3100.13.01. It has a screw-on, red plastic cup lid and a red and tan, screw-on plastic stopper. The bottle features scenes of the Mercury space mission, with the rockets blast-off, orbit, and atmospheric re-entry.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1963
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.13.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.13.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Wags and Whiskers Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This square plastic thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1978, and is the companion bottle to the lunch box with object number 2001.3100.15.01. The bottle has a screw-on, white plastic cup lid and a white and red plastic stopper. The bottle is blue and has a picture of a dog and a cat nuzzling on the front of the thermos.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1978
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.15.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.15.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Corsage Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic, tin and glass thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1973. It has a blue, screw-on plastic cup lid and a beige and red screw-on plastic stopper. The bottle is light blue and has colorful drawings of flowers on the sides. It is the companion bottle to lunch box #2001.3101.01.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1973
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3101.01.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3101
- catalog number
- 2001.3101.01.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Submarine Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This tin, plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1960. It has a red plastic, screw-on cup lid and a red and white plastic, screw-on stopper. The bottle has an image of an officer using a submarine’s periscope. The bottle is the companion of lunch box #2001.3101.06.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1960
- maker
- American Thermos Bottle Company
- ID Number
- 2001.3101.06.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3101
- catalog number
- 2001.3101.06.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Leche Fresca Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin in 1970. It has a screw-on blue plastic cup lid with handle and white plastic stopper. The thermos is blue and white with cartoons of cows and people. The thermos touts the benefits of “leche fresca,” or fresh milk, saying that “it will make you like a bull.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1970s
- maker
- Aladdin
- ID Number
- 2003.3070.09.02
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3070
- catalog number
- 2003.3070.09.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Debutante Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This metal, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1958. It has a screw-on peach plastic cup with handle and red plastic stopper. The thermos has a peach and beige faux basket weave pattern.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1958
- maker
- Aladdin
- ID Number
- 2003.3070.19.02
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3070
- catalog number
- 2003.3070.19.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Psychedelic Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1960. The bottle has a screw-on yellow cup lid with handle and screw-on yellow stopper. The thermos has a psychedelic, undulating yellow and black checkerboard design.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1960
- maker
- Aladdin
- ID Number
- 2003.3070.23.02
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3070
- catalog number
- 2003.3070.23.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Hy-Lo Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This plain worker's metal and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin in 1949. It has a screw-on dark brown plastic cup, a cork stopper, and is painted dark green. The label reads “HY-LO Hot or Cold, The ‘All American’ Vacuum Bottle.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1949
- maker
- Aladdin
- ID Number
- 2003.3070.32
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3070
- catalog number
- 2003.3070.32
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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