Jean Nidetch's Weight Watcher Scale
date: label: date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: IDL Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This official Weight Watchers food scale helped members stick to the recommended portion sizes in its weight loss program. The franchise company was founded in 1963 by Jean Nidetch, who modeled it on a support group she’d formed to help herself and her friends keep their resolve to lose weight. It expanded rapidly and by 1968, the year this scale was sold, Weight Watchers also marketed cookbooks, frozen foods, and exercise videos.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Carlstadt
topic: label: web subject
content: Body
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen Winkle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0090.01
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0090.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0090
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale with box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (scale material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (scale material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall box: 4 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 10.4775 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall scale: 3 3/16 in x 4 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.05942 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.715 cm