Picnic Basket Lunch Box
Picnic Basket Lunch Box
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- Description (Brief)
- This tin-plated steel lunch box was manufactured by the Ohio Art Company in the 1920s. The lunch box features a removable lid and two pinned metal handles, as well as images of children playing with a cat on the top and sides of the box.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Date made
- 1920s
- maker
- Ohio Art Company
- Physical Description
- tin (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 8 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 2001.3087.02
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3087
- catalog number
- 2001.3087.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of D. Sean and Robin S. Brickell
- subject
- School Personal Equipment
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Lunch Boxes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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