Daisy Pop Gun
name: label: maker
content: Daisy Manufacturing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Wooden toy gun.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: World War II brought hard times for Daisy, as it did for many other United States companies. With steel no longer available for domestic use, Daisy was forced to make wooden pop guns. The steel that had made the BB gun was now used by Daisy to make 37-mm canisters for the war effort.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: related event
content: World War II
label: related event
content: The Great Depression and World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Daisy-Heddon. Division Victor Comptometer Corp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.84663M
label: catalog number
content: 84663M
label: accession number
content: 1978.1028
label: catalog number
content: 1978.1028.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gun, toy
label: Other Terms
content: Guck; gun, toy; Firearms; Smooth Bore
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 30 in x 1 in; 13.97 cm x 76.2 cm x 2.54 cm