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 1941 items.
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Hi - My Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This metal lunch box was made by the Ohio Art Company in 1977. The box has lithographed blue denim on all surfaces. The front has an image of an apple with worm and belt buckle and "Hi", and "MY LUNCH" and an apple is seen on the rear.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1977
- maker
- Ohio Art Company
- ID Number
- 2001.3099.05
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3099
- catalog number
- 2001.3099.05
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Mod Tulip Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This lunch box is a domed, tin lunch box with two metal snaps for a hinged lid and a collapsible beige plastic handle. The box has a colorful floral design over a black background.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1962
- maker
- Ohio Art Company
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.07
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.07
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Orbit Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was made by Thermos in 1963. It has a metal snap for a hinged lid and a collapsible red, plastic handle. The front side of the box shows a cross section of the Mercury manned space flight module, showing John Glenn operating the capsule. The reverse side shows the Atlas rocket launching from the space pad. These images were lifted from National Geographic, and Thermos received a cease and desist and stopped production. As such, these boxes are rather rare.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1963
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.13.01
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.13.01
- 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 Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was manufactured by Thermos in 1978. It has a yellow plastic snap for a hinged lid and a collapsible yellow, plastic handle. The lunch box features blue, white, yellow and green designs of colorful drawings of a dog and a cat playing together in cute ways.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1978
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.15.01
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.15.01
- 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 Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was manufactured by Thermos in 1973. It has a white plastic snap for a hinged lid and a white collapsible, plastic handle. The box has a light blue background and white rim, and features of colorful drawings of flowers on the lid, back and sides.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1973
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ID Number
- 2001.3101.01.01
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3101
- catalog number
- 2001.3101.01.01
- 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 Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was manufactured by Thermos in 1960. It has a metal snap for a hinged lid and a collapsible, red plastic handle. The art on the lunch box features images of four submarines on the back and sides. The submarines are the USS Nautilus, Seawolf, Skipjack, and George Washington. The George Washington is shown firing an underwater missile, and there is a cross-section of the USS Nautilus on the bottom.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1960
- maker
- Thermos
- American Thermos Bottle Company
- ID Number
- 2001.3101.06.01
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3101
- catalog number
- 2001.3101.06.01
- 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