Mixor® Hand Mixer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1952
name: label: maker
content: Waring Products Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld electric mixer in original cardboard box. Recipe and instruction booklet, “Copyright 1952 Waring Products Corporation”, in box with mixer.
label: Description
content: A. Chrome-plated metal body rectangular in shape, tapered towards bottom, ribbed horizontally on the side facing the beaters, venting at bottom, with upper half comprised of metal painted white. Black plastic arch handle at top with metal plate attached with two screws, black plastic selector wheel, 3-speed dial, imprinted in black sans serif: “H/IMED/LOW/OFF”. Two steel four-winged beaters attached, round metal shafts, bulb-shaped, flattened at bottom. Black rubber two-pronged cord attached at bottom, metal prongs are discolored and stamped with marks, now illegible. Silver metal plate at top near handle is printed in red sans serif: “WARING”; underside of metal body is debossed in sans serif: “WARING PRODUCTS CORPORATION/MODEL RMI MIXOR/N.Y N.Y./115 VOLTS/70 WATTS/AC-DC/25 To 60/CYCLES/PATS.-PEND. “UL” mark on left, for Underwriters Laboratories (1894-present), and “CSA” mark on right, for Canadian Standards Association, now CSA International (1919-present).
label: Description
content: B. Bent metal wire wall bracket, chrome-plated.
label: Description
content: Accompanying box is red and yellow, printed with black, yellow and red text on all five sides, as well as a panel inside which details the features of the mixer. A white price sticker is still adhered to one side and reads: “KANN’S/WASHINGTON/RM-1/MIXER/13.88”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (box; pamphlet; wall bracket (1))
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place purchased; place used
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: kitchen
label: Subject
content: Packaging
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jane Griffin Yeingst and William H. Yeingst
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0175.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0175
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0175.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer, food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (body material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug material)
label: Physical Description
content: chrome-plated (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-mixer: 2 3/4 in x 10 in x 5 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 25.4 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-in box: 2 7/8 in x 11 5/8 in x 7 in; 7.3025 cm x 29.5275 cm x 17.78 cm