Box of Straws
date: label: Date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: First Brands Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This is a set of 40 flexible straws in a sealed yellow cardboard box. It has a drawing of pastel colored floating balloons and is labelled as 'Glad Flexible Straws' manufactured by the First Brands Corporation, Danbury, CT'
label: Description
content: As of January 1999, First Brands Corporation was acquired by The Clorox Company. First Brands Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plastic storage containers, cat care products, cleaning cloth, and aluminum foil. Its brands include Scoop Away, Ever Clean, and Everfresh cat litter; Starterlogg wood starter fire products, and Hearthlogg fire logs; Glag, Chux, Oso, Mono, and Rota for plastic wrap and bags, cleaning cloth, and aluminum foil. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Danbury, Connecticut.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Danbury
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content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert A. Friedman, Pamela B. Leeds, Linda A. Reiss, and Judith B. Rosen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0247.16
label: accession number
content: 2001.0247
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0247.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Straws
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 8.5 cm x 2.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in x in