Goldman's Folding Basket Carriage
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Folding Basket Carrier Co.
notes: label: Description
content: To increase shoppers ability to purchase more groceries, Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma City, developed a "combination of basket and carriage." He devised a folding frame with wheels and two shelves which held two stock wire baskets. He filed for patent on March 14, 1938 and recieved approved patent on April 9, 1940 for the Folding Basket Carriage for Self-Serivce Stores.
label: Description
content: The carrier is original but repainted in 1972 in the same green as original finish.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
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content: Work and Industry: Retail and Marketing
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content: Food
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
label: Exhibition
content: Object Project
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.302377.01
label: accession number
content: 302377
label: patent number
content: 2196914
label: catalog number
content: 302377.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shopping Cart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 23 in x 17 in; 93.98 cm x 58.42 cm x 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 49 in x 89 in x 28 in; 124.46 cm x 226.06 cm x 71.12 cm