Mod Tulip Lunch Box
date: label: Date made
content: 1962
label: date made
content: ca 1962
name: label: maker
content: Ohio Art Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This lunch box is a domed, tin lunch box with two metal snaps for a hinged lid and a collapsible beige plastic handle. The box has a colorful floral design over a black background.
label: Description
content: The “Mod Tulip” lunchbox was offered to consumers by the Ohio Art Company in 1962. Metal with a domed lid, the pail features a striking pattern of bright pop-art inspired flowers on a black background, a look that anticipates the decades’ embrace of psychedelic “flower power” imagery.
label: Description
content: While lunch pails have been used by working people and school children since before the turn of the 20th century, it wasn’t until the 1950s that they became commonly employed as accessories to express one’s interests or personality. At the time of its release, the “Mod Tulip” would have been seen as trendy and stylish.
topic: label: general subject association
content: School Personal Equipment
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Lunch Boxes
label: Exhibition
content: Taking America To Lunch
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Allan Woodall, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3100.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3100
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3100.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lunch box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 22 cm x 14 cm; 10 5/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 5 1/2 in