This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
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This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
Comic book featuring the pulp action hero “Tarzan”. DC’s Tarzan of the Apes series ran from 1972-1977. It began with issue no. 207, following the sequencing of the Title’s former publisher, Gold Key Comics, whose version ran from 1948-1972.
“Tarzan” is a fictional character created by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Burrough’s introduced his vine-swinging jungle hero in the story Tarzan of the Apes first published in the magazine The All-Story in 1912. The story was later reprinted as a standalone novel in 1914.
An Englishman from a noble family, Tarzan’s family dies while on an African Expedition. As an infant he us taken in and raised by Apes in Africa, learning to communicate with animals and developing exceptions strength and dexterity. Although he later discovers his human origins, Tarzan decides to remain in the jungle, developing a romantic relationship with marooned Englishwoman Jane Porter.
One of the 20th centuries first action-adventure heroes, Tarzan became a global phenomenon, inspiring the prolific Burroughs, also known for works such as his John Carter of Mars series, to pen 23 sequels featuring his “ape-man.” Inspiring scores of other pulp adventure heroes, Tarzan has become of the world’s most recognized literary characters. He remains a vital part of our shared popular culture, featured in novelizations, comic books, television, and feature films.
Reflecting many outdated cultural beliefs, the story of Tarzan expressed many elitist and racist notions accepted at the time of Burrough’s writing.
This steel and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin in 1961. It has a screw-on blue plastic cup lid with handle and screw-on red plastic stopper. The bottle features cartoon images of Ludwig Von Drake in Disneyland. It is the companion bottle to lunch box number 2003.3070.10.01.
This plastic and glass vacuum thermos bottle was manufactured by the American Thermos Products Company and served as a companion bottle to the Satellite Lunch Box, object number 2001.0387.06.01. The bottle is adorned with action scenes in space featuring rockets and satellites hovering over the surface of the moon.
This tin, plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1969. It has a screw-on, green plastic cup lid and a beige and red screw-on, plastic stopper. The bottle has colorful drawings from the television show Julia on the side of the thermos.
Plastic and glass thermos bottle with a red plastic screw-on cup lid and red and beige plastic, screw-on stopper. There is a yellow design with a farm scene with a young girl, a boy and a dog and horses overall.
This plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1970. It has a screw-on white plastic cup lid with handle and screw-on white plastic stopper. The thermos bottle is decorated with various Dr. Seuss cartoons, including the Cat in the Hat.
This black thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1962. The thermos has a red plastic lid and screw-on stopper. The bottle is decorated with images of Barbie in various poses.
This bottle of Mucosolvan was sold at the El Monte company store. Shop operators forced workers to buy food and personal items from them at inflated prices. The respiratory medicine was seized during a well-publicized 1995 sweatshop raid and is part of a larger Smithsonian collection of artifacts documenting apparel industry sweatshops, focusing on the El Monte operation.
On August 2, 1995, police officers raided a fenced seven-unit apartment complex in El Monte, California. They arrested eight operators of a clandestine garment sweatshop and freed 72 workers who were being forced to sew garments in virtual captivity. Smuggled from Thailand into the United States, the laborers’ plight brought a national spotlight to domestic sweatshop production and resulted in increased enforcement by federal and state labor agencies. The publicity of the El Monte raid also put added pressure on the apparel industry to reform its labor and business practices domestically and internationally.
This thermos bottle was manufactured by Thermos in 1961, and is the companion piece to lunch box object number 2001.3100.11.01. The bottle is made of tin, plastic and glass and has a screw-on, red plastic cup lid and a screw-on red and tan plastic stopper. The bottle is yellow with drawings of cowboy clothing, equipment and firearms around the sides.
This plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin in 1973. It has a screw-on red cup lid with handle, but the stopper is missing. The thermos features images from the television series, Emergency!. Emergency! ran from 1972-1978 on NBC, and chronicled the adventures of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on white plastic cup lid with handle and screw-on white plastic stopper. The thermos has a lavender background, with images of Twiggy modeling various outfits around the exterior.
Avon Products celebrated the recreational pickup camper with this dual container for Deep Woods after shave lotion (truck) and Deep Woods talc (camper). Pickup trucks were larger and more powerful by the 1950s, and the manufactured pickup camper became a new, practical alternative for vacationers, hunters, anglers, and others who wanted to spend the night in a recreation vehicle. A truck-mounted camper offered many advantages over a motor home or trailer: it was less expensive, lighter, faster, and easier to maneuver. The added weight over the rear drive wheel provided better traction in mud and gravel.
This metal thermos bottle was made by Thermos in the 1950s. It has a glass liner, a red plastic screw-on lid and red plastic stopper. The thermos is decorated with colorful animated fly-tied fish hooks, and each is named.
The EV1 was the first modern electric car designed for a mass market. Beginning in 1996, General Motors built 1,117 of the cars at the Lansing Craft Centre in Lansing, Michigan and leased most of them to consumers in California, Arizona, and Georgia. This bottle of Electrolight home brew, donated by GM engineer Jon Bereisa, represents the camaraderie of EV1 staff members, who volunteered for their assignments and socialized after work hours.