The Jetsons Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This domed steel lunch was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1963. It features images from the popular television series, The Jetsons. The lunch box features images of the whole Jetson family, George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy, as well as Rosie the Household Robot and Astro the Dog. This box is one of the most coveted by collectors because of its great design, colorful art, and scarcity.
- Description
- Aladdin Industries profited from the success of The Jetsons television cartoon series in the fall of 1963 by introducing a domed lunch box featuring that space-traveling suburban family and their robotic maid. American notions of family life in the 1960s traveled effortlessly outward to interplanetary space on this fanciful box.
- Domed metal lunch boxes traditionally were carried by factory employees and construction workers, but Aladdin and other makers found the curved shape made an excellent young person's landscape, ocean scene, or starry sky. Despite the more earth-bound adult concerns of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and the Kennedy assassination, The Jetsons box and bottle showcase the metal lunch box at the zenith of its design life and its popularity among school children.
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Date made
- 1963
- maker
- Aladdin
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- plastic (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 cm x 13 cm x 18 cm; 9 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 7 1/16 in
- ID Number
- 2003.3070.22.01
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3070
- catalog number
- 2003.3070.22.01
- subject
- Family & Social Life
- Sputnik
- Television
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Sputnik
- Exhibition
- Taking America To Lunch
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Additional Media
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