Tobacco Tin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
notes: label: Description
content: "Singing Waiter" roly poly retail tin for Mayo's Cut Plug Tobacco. Chromolithographed, egg-shape cover and spherical container depict a man in evening dress holding a cigar in his right hand and singing a "Song" about "everybody's smoking"; a blue-and-yellow package of Mayo's tobacco is on his back. Concave bottom has a circular label that reads "THIS 'BROWNIE' TIN COMES IN DIFFERENT DESIGNS / GET A COLLECTION", followed by an affirmation of quality and "FACTORY N\o 42. 2d DISTRICT. OF VA / (caution not to resell) / PATENT APPLIED FOR".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Richmond
label: place tin made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Promotional Item
label: Subject
content: Tobacco Use
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0001
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0001
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin, tobacco
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 1/8 in; 17.78 cm x 15.5575 cm