Tarzan Thermos
date: label: Date made
content: 1967
name: label: Associated Name
content: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
label: maker
content: Aladdin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
label: Description
content: This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
label: Description
content: Comic book featuring the pulp action hero “Tarzan”. DC’s <i>Tarzan of the Apes</i> series ran from 1972-1977. It began with issue no. 207, following the sequencing of the Title’s former publisher, Gold Key Comics, whose version ran from 1948-1972.
label: Description
content: “Tarzan” is a fictional character created by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Burrough’s introduced his vine-swinging jungle hero in the story <i>Tarzan of the Apes </i> first published in the magazine <i>The All-Story</i> in 1912. The story was later reprinted as a standalone novel in 1914.
label: Description
content: An Englishman from a noble family, Tarzan’s family dies while on an African Expedition. As an infant he us taken in and raised by Apes in Africa, learning to communicate with animals and developing exceptions strength and dexterity. Although he later discovers his human origins, Tarzan decides to remain in the jungle, developing a romantic relationship with marooned Englishwoman Jane Porter.
label: Description
content: One of the 20th centuries first action-adventure heroes, Tarzan became a global phenomenon, inspiring the prolific Burroughs, also known for works such as his <i>John Carter of Mars </i> series, to pen 23 sequels featuring his “ape-man.” Inspiring scores of other pulp adventure heroes, Tarzan has become of the world’s most recognized literary characters. He remains a vital part of our shared popular culture, featured in novelizations, comic books, television, and feature films.
label: Description
content: Reflecting many outdated cultural beliefs, the story of Tarzan expressed many elitist and racist notions accepted at the time of Burrough’s writing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Lunch Boxes
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Aladdin Industries (through Lillian B. Jenkins)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.3070.17.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2003.3070
label: catalog number
content: 2003.3070.17.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (leaflet material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (lid material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 8 cm x 16.5 cm; 3 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in