Louis Schram's Lunch Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1944
notes: label: Description
content: This lunch box belonged to Mr. Louis Schram, born July 27, 1894. Schram served in World War I but was rejected for service in the Second World War. Instead, he took a second job in an unidentified war plant in Toledo, Ohio, where he used the lunch box. Toledo was the site of a defense industry boom as home to the Willys-Overland automobile manufacturing plant that produced Jeeps for the military. Schram moved back to Chicago in 1944, and passed away in Wilmette, Illinois, in 1971.
label: Description
content: This black, pressed-metal rectangular lunch pail has a slightly curved top to fit a thermos.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Winnetka
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Judith S. Cottle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0073.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0073
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0073.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lunch box
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 26.67 cm x 11.43 cm