Fruit jar for home canning
name: label: maker
content: Ball Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: The Ball jar is emblematic of American home-canning history. This quart-sized, molded, "Ball blue" glass jar was manufactured by the Ball Brothers Company of Muncie, Indiana. It has a glass lid with a wire bail closure. The phrase "PAT'D July 14, 1908" is stamped on the jar, indicating the patent date for the particular fastening location of the jar's wire locking lever. The "Ideal" design was discontinued in 1962. The Ball brothers began manufacturing fruit jars in 1884; in 1993, Ball Corporation sold its home canning business to Alltrista (now Jarden) Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Muncie
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.76-FT-01.1419
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1419
label: collector/donor number
content: 4656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar, fruit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (overall material)