Plastic Cup
notes: label: Description
content: James H. Schwartzburg, a businessman in Lawrence, Kansas, established Packer Plastics in 1968. The name came from the Green Bay Packers which had won the Super Bowl in 1967. Being made of high-density injection-molded polyethylene, Packer products were dishwasher safe and reusable, and could carry a text. In 1970, the director of the University of Kansas Student Union ordered 50,000 cups marked “UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.” This example is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Packer Plastics became PackerWare, Inc. in 1995, and was sold to Berry Plastics in 1997.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: PackerWare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0094.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0094.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0094
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plastic Cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, hdpe (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 9.3 cm; 4 1/8 in x 3 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 9.2075 cm