Bridesmaid Wedding Cake Figure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
notes: label: Description
content: During World War II, wedding cakes were a luxury due to sugar rationing and other restrictions. After the war, the wedding cake became a central part of wedding parties and receptions, and cake figure production boomed. In the 1950s, mass production widened the variety of figures available. This figure, made in 1957, is of a bridesmaid. The wedding cake she sat atop apparently included not only the bride and groom but the wedding party as well.
topic: label: Subject
content: Weddings
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0301.04
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0301.04
label: accession number
content: 1992.0301
label: catalog number
content: 1992.301.4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: figure
label: Other Terms
content: figure; Decoration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 4 cm; 4 5/16 in x 1 9/16 in