Miss America Lunch Box
date: label: Date made
content: 1972
name: label: collected for nmah
content: Smithsonian Institution
label: maker
content: Aladdin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This metal lunch box was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1972. The lunch box features imagery based on the annually televised Miss America Pageant. Originally a beauty pageant when it began in 1921, the Miss America Pageant became a “scholarship pageant” over the years, offering its first scholastic financial aid in 1945. The Miss America Pageant is now the world’s largest provider of scholarships for young women, making $45 million dollars available in scholarships on a yearly basis.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: School Personal Equipment
label: Subject
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Lunch Boxes
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Allen Woodall and Sean Brickell. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Metal Lunch Boxes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3160.63
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3160
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3160.63
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lunch box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chrome plating (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 in; 19.05 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm