set of illuminated cardboard Christmas houses
date: label: date made
content: 1958
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of thirteen illuminated cardboard Christmas houses in the original box. Purchased by the donor’s mother in 1958 from Hutzler's Department store in Baltimore for her first Christmas after marrying. She used the set in a Christmas garden displayed each year until 2005 under the family Christmas tree. The associated light string did not come with the set but was purchased separately. The houses were designed with loops so they could be suspended from tree branches, but she modified them to accept the lights so they could be displayed on a platform under the tree. A safety “Warning” sheet is included with the set. The set originally came with twelve houses; the house with gold-colored string on top was added to the set in the late 1960s. The plastic figures to six of the houses were added around 1976 and were painted by the donor at that time. Light set: 18’ long, 35 clear lamps. Printed on box: “Genuine Italian Christmas Lights”. Label reads: “Art. 45-58 / Volts 110 / Made in Italy”. Houses are numbered and match designs on the box cover. Paper sign “Warning” included with set. Light string: GE logo molded on plug above “TS-1”, yellow label reads in part: “Made in Korea”, red label includes Underwriters Laboratories logo.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0244.10
label: accession number
content: 2015.0244
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0244.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: decorative lamp set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 12 in x 3 in; 27.94 cm x 30.48 cm x 7.62 cm