Satellite Lunch Box
date: label: Date made
content: 1957
label: Date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: American Thermos Products Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in late 1957 sparked interest in the United States in science education even among elementary school children. In 1958, King Seeley Thermos produced this imaginative box evoking space travel and landings on distant moons and planets. Children provided a receptive audience to this imaginary yet hopeful view of scientific achievement in the early years of the space race. This is one of the few pop culture lunch boxes from the late 1950s not designed around a television show.
label: Description
content: The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in late 1957 sparked interest in the United States in science education even among elementary school children. In 1958, King Seeley Thermos produced this imaginative box evoking space travel and landings on distant moons and planets. Children provided a receptive audience to this imaginary yet hopeful view of scientific achievement in the early years of the space race. This is one of the few pop culture lunch boxes from the late 1950s not designed around a television show.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Sputnik
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of D. Sean and Robin S. Brickell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3087.06.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3087
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3087.06.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lunch box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 18 cm x 10 cm; 8 11/16 in x 7 1/16 in x 3 15/16 in