This tall, white pitcher represents two significant food-related innovations with roots in 1940s America: frozen orange juice concentrate, developed by scientists who patented the manufacturing process in 1948, and Tupperware, the polyethylene container system developed by Earl Tupper in 1948 and sold by direct marketing to consumers in their homes.
This polyethylene pitcher, including its lid and spout cap, was sold as a promotional tie-in between Tupperware and Minute Maid juices. The pitcher is printed with an image of a smiling girl wearing a bonnet. Red lettering on the pitcher reads, "Minute Maid Large Family Size Juice Mixer." Mixing instructions and measuring lines are printed on the back.
Processors of frozen concentrated orange juice like Minute Maid recreated the flavor of fresh orange juice by adding “cut-back” (fresh juice, flavor essences, and peel oil) to the thick concentrate before freezing. At home, consumers mixed the frozen concentrate with water in pitchers of their own, or in containers like this, especially promoted for this purpose. Shipped nation-wide, the frozen concentrated product was easy to make and provided orange juice all year long when fresh-squeezed juice was prohibitively expensive.
black and white stereograph mounted on orange cardstock; advertisements printed on verso for S.H. Kimball, Chester's Cure, The Yokohama Tea Co., William Bourne & Son Piano Forte Warerooms, Clifford Perfumery, Pool Brothers Hat & Bonnet Bleachery; printed on recto "Peoples' Series. / The Old Stone Chimney House, Pawtucket, R.I. 200 years old / American Views."; two (possibly three) level wooden clapboard and shingle home with steeply pitched roof, stone chimneys at both ends of the roof line; young girl standing on unpaved path in front of home pushing a (toy?) three-wheeled carriage
hand colored stereograph; printed on recto "Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild, Look upon, A little child"; young girl kneeling on a prie-dieu, hands folded in front of her, wearing a maroon dress with white collar
hand colored stereograph; printed on verso "EVENING PARTIES. / Mr. Bottomley dances his first polka with Miss Longshanks."; at center a woman wearing a white jacket and a white and magenta horizontally striped dress with full skirt is dancing with a young boy in a black suit; in background at left a man wearing a black suit is dancing with a young girl wearing a white patterned dress; in background a right a man and woman are dancing
hand colored stereograph; printed on verso "THE CHRISTENING."; group of young boys and girls in an interior room; young boy at center dressed up like a priest and holding a doll, basin of water on a stool in front of him; young girl and young boy stand on either side; young boy in foreground lying on floor, head propped up on his right hand; additional boys and girls in background
black and white stereograph mounted on buff colored cardstock; printed on verso "Sterescopic Views, / Made and for sale, wholesale and retail, by / Joseph W. Warren, / No. 2 High Street, / Fall River, - - Mass. / Views of Residences made at short notice."; image of the front of a gingerbread style cottage; two women on front steps, one standing holding a baby and another seated in a wooden chair; two young girls sitting in between the women and a young boy seated on steps to the left with his dog; open entryway behind the group on the steps; balcony overhead entryway with a woman seated at right, young girl seated at left and a young boy standing in open balcony door
black and white stereograph mounted on grey cardstock; embossed on recto "The London / Stereograph Company / 534 Broadway"; printed on verso "Burns' Cottage Children"; image of a sculpted figurine of two children and a cat; young girl on left is seated on rocks and holding a piece of food to her mouth; a cat is curled up at her feet; young girl on right is kneeling, with her right elbow resting on the other girl's lap and she is holding a spoon in her right hand and an empty bowl in her left hand
black and white stereograph; printed on verso "6285 Tickled by a straw. / Copyright"; young boy and girl in an interior room; young girl is wearing a white dress, apron and cap is seated on a chair against the open door; boy is wearing dark pants, striped shirt and dark vest and is leaning against the door frame but is bent over at waist holding a piece of straw out to the young girl; pails, basins and other household goods to the right of girl, closed window on wall behind girl
people at Christmas; teenage girl wearing silver pants and a pink top is sitting on the lap of a man dressed in a Santa Clause costume; the chair is situated next to a Christmas tree and in front of a window
hand colored stereograph; printed on verso "The Mysteries of Crinoline. / Fact and Fiction. / Entered at Stationers' Hall. / Depose"; woman seated on outdoor bench with a neo-classical statue to the right, trees in background; dark jacket, full pink skirt and hat