straws
date: label: Date made
content: 2001
notes: label: Description
content: This is a set of 40 dark colored flexible straws in a sealed black cardboard box with a clear plastic window. It has labelling reading 'Carnival...Neon Straws...Clear Shield National Inc. Wheeling, IL.' It has a drawing of a head of a clown.
label: Description
content: Clear Shield National, is a leading U.S. maker of plastic cutlery, custom dining kits, drinking straws, and related plastic products. Clear Shield, based in Wheeling, Illinois, sells primarily to institutional customers such as hospitals and schools, and to major fast-food restaurant chains such as Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and others. Clear Shield also sells its plastic cutlery and other products under the Clear Shield and Carnival brand names to the retail consumer market.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Wheeling
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert A. Friedman, Pamela B. Leeds, Linda A. Reiss, and Judith B. Rosen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0247.18
label: accession number
content: 2001.0247
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0247.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Straws
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 2 cm; 8 1/16 in x 3 3/4 in x 13/16 in