Can Opener and Cover
date: label: date made
content: 1950-1960
notes: label: Description
content: "PET" evaporated milk can opener and cover. Round, blue, metal lid, with two pointed cone shapes projecting downward, which would puncture holes in the top of the can when pressed on top of it. In original packaging, with plastic wrap, paper label stapled to top. Label is printed, with illustrations of how to use the opener/cover. Reads: "HERE'S YOUR HANDY...PET MILK Can Opener!/opens cans so easily.../...and then serves as a Convenient PET MILK Can Cover!". Opener/cover is engraved around rim: "PET EVAPORATED MILK-the first evaporated milk" (engraved twice around). Piece of yellow string is attached to label.
label: Description
content: Maker is PET, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.62
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 631
label: catalog number
content: 322793.62
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opener and cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 in; 1.27 cm x 16.51 cm x 10.16 cm