Avon bottle in the Shape of a Winnebago Motor Home
notes: label: Description
content: Avon Products celebrated Winnebago’s iconic status with this container for Wild Country after shave lotion. Vacationing families had invented the motor home to enjoy domestic comforts while exploring America’s back roads. The earliest examples in the 1910s and 1920s were cozy replicas of upper- and middle-class homes mounted on chassis. By the 1960s, with superhighways, paid vacations, and growing affluence, manufactured motor homes hit the road. In 1966, Winnebago Industries began making motor homes with modern looks, convenient layout, easy handling, and good performance. The Winnebago D-22 was an instant hit with affluent vacationers, securing the company’s place as America’s first mass-producer of motor homes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Roger B. White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0064.01
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0064.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.9 cm x 5 cm x 6.3 cm; 5 7/8 in x 1 31/32 in x 2 15/32 in