Blue Lunch Box
Blue Lunch Box
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- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was made in the 1940s , and has a metal snap for hinged lid and a collapsible silver handle. There is a plain blue and gray design on the exterior.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Date made
- 1940s
- Physical Description
- tin (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 cm x 18 cm x 8 cm; 9 1/16 in x 7 1/16 in x 3 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 2001.3099.03
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3099
- catalog number
- 2001.3099.03
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joyce Darrell and Michael C. Dickerson
- subject
- School Personal Equipment
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- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Lunch Boxes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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