<i>Popeye</i> Lunch Box
date: label: Date made
content: 1964
name: label: maker
content: King Seeley Thermos
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tin lunch box was made by Thermos in 1964. The box has a metal snap for a hinged lid and a collapsible, dark brown plastic handle. The box has colorful action scenes and portrait drawings from the cartoon series <i>Popeye</i> on the lid, back and sides. Popeye the sailor was originally created as a comic-strip character by E.C. Segar in 1929, and has continued to the present while also appearing in radio, television, and movies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: School Personal Equipment
label: depicted
content: Popeye
label: general subject association
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Lunch Boxes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3101.12.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3101
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3101.12.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lunch box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 19 cm x 10 cm; 9 1/16 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 15/16 in