Jigger
notes: label: Description
content: While working for DuPont in Leominster, Mass., in 1937, Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983) found that polyethylene slag could be transformed into a firm and flexible plastic. He established the Earl S. Tupper Company in 1938, and built a factory in Farnumsville, Mass., in 1942. The “Welcome Ware / Tupper Corporation / Farnumsville, Mass.” inscription on this off-white plastic jigger indicates that it was made during World War II.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Glenn O. Tupper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0597.16
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0597.16
label: accession number
content: 1992.0597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jigger
label: Object Name
content: Tupperware "Jigger
label: Object Name
content: Tupperware "Welcome Ware" Jigger
label: Object Name
content: Tupper "Welcome Ware" Jigger
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.6 cm x 5.1 cm; 2 3/16 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 2 in; 6.6675 cm x 5.08 cm