Minute Maid Juice Pitcher by Tupperware
date: label: date made
content: ca 1949
label: date made
content: ca 1953 - 1955
name: label: maker
content: Tupperware
notes: label: Description
content: This tall, white pitcher represents two significant food-related innovations with roots in 1940s America: frozen orange juice concentrate, developed by scientists who patented the manufacturing process in 1948, and Tupperware, the polyethylene container system developed by Earl Tupper in 1948 and sold by direct marketing to consumers in their homes.
label: Description
content: This polyethylene pitcher, including its lid and spout cap, was sold as a promotional tie-in between Tupperware and Minute Maid juices. The pitcher is printed with an image of a smiling girl wearing a bonnet. Red lettering on the pitcher reads, "Minute Maid Large Family Size Juice Mixer." Mixing instructions and measuring lines are printed on the back.
label: Description
content: Processors of frozen concentrated orange juice like Minute Maid recreated the flavor of fresh orange juice by adding “cut-back” (fresh juice, flavor essences, and peel oil) to the thick concentrate before freezing. At home, consumers mixed the frozen concentrate with water in pitchers of their own, or in containers like this, especially promoted for this purpose. Shipped nation-wide, the frozen concentrated product was easy to make and provided orange juice all year long when fresh-squeezed juice was prohibitively expensive.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Woonsocket
topic: label: depicted
content: Girls
label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Promotional Item
label: Subject
content: Plastics
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
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content: Advertising
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Glenn O. Tupper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0605.001A-C
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0605.001A-C
label: accession number
content: 1992.0605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Juice Mixer
label: Object Name
content: mixer, juice
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (polyethylene) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25 cm x 12.5 cm; 9 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in