Hot 'N Cold Feeding Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980s
name: label: maker
content: Gerber Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: Child's feeding dish (A), with lid (B), and power cord (C), in original cardboard box, printed with photo of product and description. Dish (A) is molded plastic, white, rectangular, with three separate rectangular compartments for different foods, first two compartments are equal in size, third is slightly smaller. Each compartment has a color illustration of a baby: a girl with a pink bow in her hair, holding a doll, a young boy in a blue shirt plays with a toy train, and a young girl wears a blue cap and shirt, pink gloves. Above the third compartment the words "COOL SECTION" are embossed in sans serif. The bottom has a brown rubber suction cup, flat, to keep in place on table, with rubber "RELEASE" pull attached. Bottom is embossed: "GERBER MODEL NO. 3718/UL LISTED FOOD WARMER 154 H/120 VOLTS A.C. ONLY 55 WATTS/DIST. BY GERBER PRODUCTS CO. U.S.A./UNPLUG CORD AT BOTH ENDS/BEFORE FEEDING CHILD/DO NOT PLACE IN MICROWAVE OVEN"
label: Description
content: (B) is the molded plastic lid, clear, with molded rectangular handle in center. Faceted, slightly raised.
label: Description
content: (C) is the white rubber power cord with two-prong plug.
label: Description
content: Maker is Gerber Products Company, Fremont, Michigan.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Fremont
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0608.07
label: accession number
content: 1988.0608
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0608.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dish, Infant's
label: Object Name
content: dish, feeding, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-dish: 2 in x 9 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 24.765 cm x 16.1925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-in box: 2 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 28.575 cm x 16.51 cm