"Toastmaster Hospitality" Tray
date: label: date made
content: 1935- 1936
name: label: maker
content: McGraw Electric Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Part of a nine-piece “Toastmaster Hospitality” set (1989.0308.01-.09). Art deco style serving tray. Laminated plywood, medium brown. Rectangular, rounded corners with streamlines, and flattened, squared handles on either side. Underside has adhered vinyl lettering: “TOASTMASTER/HOSPITALITY TRAY/GENUINE PLYWOOD-OVERTON BENTWOOD PROCESS/MCGRAW ELECTRIC COMPANY/WATERS-GENTER DIVISION, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., U.S.A./PATENT PENDING”
label: Description
content: Original box and packing material included (see 1989.0308.10).
label: Description
content: The set includes a toast cutter, serving tray, and six matching dishes.
label: Description
content: Maker is likely S.E. Overton, South Haven, Michigan, for McGraw Electric Company. Further research is needed on this company, as no information can be found at this time on it or the referenced pending patent.
label: Description
content: The other components of the set were manufactured by McGraw Electric Company, Toastmaster Products Division, ca 1912-present, though no longer manufacturing household appliances, and now known as McGraw-Edison; and Fostoria Glass Company, ca 1887-1983, Fostoria, Ohio and Moundsville, West Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, South Haven
label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0308.09
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0308.09
label: accession number
content: 1989.0308
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plywood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/16 in x 23 9/16 in x 15 1/2 in; 2.69875 cm x 59.84875 cm x 39.37 cm
label: Measurements
content: shipping box: 10 in x 16 7/16 in x 24 7/16 in; 25.4 cm x 41.75125 cm x 62.07125 cm