Portable Electric Oven
date: label: date made
content: ca 1961
name: label: maker
content: Knapp-Monarch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Portable electric tabletop baking oven. Streamlined, rectangular-shaped body (A), curved corners, chrome-plated. Four circular plastic feet, black. Flat, horizontal black plastic handles on each side, one pulls open the door, attached to long metal tray (B), which holds the walled aluminum baking sheet (C). Detachable power cord (D), black rubber and plastic, silver metal coil, attaches below handle, opposite tray door. Top of body has attached metal plate, printed with: “KNAPP-MONARCH/Redi-Baker®”, with temperatures for various foods listed; temperature knob, circular black plastic, and light indicator; “20787” is scratched into top. Bottom is engraved: “UL/PATENTED/MF’D BY KNAPP-MONARCH/ST. LOUIS, U.S.A./120 V. 870 W. A.C. ONLY/CAT. NO. 45-500D”.
label: Description
content: This toaster is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Co. Coll. Tag: Sample No. 20787/Rec’d. 1968/Model 45-500D”.
label: Description
content: The first oven-style toaster (similar to this oven, that used horizontal toasting and was equipped with an oven unit for preparing frozen foods as well as for baking unfrozen foods) was introduced in 1961 by General Electric.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1925 as A.S. Knapp and Company, not as a manufacturer, but to sell products. The company merged with manufacturer Monarch Company of Webster City, Iowa, in 1928. A large portion of Knapp-Monarch’s business was the manufacturing of products for private brands. In 1969 the company was acquired by the Hoover Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0835.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0835.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0835
label: collector/donor number
content: 20787
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oven, portable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, cord stored in oven: 5 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 13 3/4 in; 14.9225 cm x 18.0975 cm x 34.925 cm
label: Measurements
content: body: 5 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 13 3/4 in; 14.9225 cm x 18.0975 cm x 34.925 cm
label: Measurements
content: panel: 4 9/16 in x 6 in x 11 1/2 in; 11.58875 cm x 15.24 cm x 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: pan: 1 1/4 in x 5 1/16 in x 9 3/16 in; 3.175 cm x 12.85875 cm x 23.33625 cm
label: Measurements
content: cord (wrapped up): 1 3/16 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 3/8 in; 3.01625 cm x 12.065 cm x 18.7325 cm