"Get Smart" Lunchbox, 1966
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Artifact Overview
The first pictorial lunchboxes, introduced in 1950, featured Hopalong Cassidy. Since then, generations of children have proudly sported pictorial images of their favorite television shows on the sides of their school lunchboxes. Get Smart was television satire of secret agent shows and movies, featuring an inept agent working for a US government counter-intelligence agency in the late 1960s.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Lunchbox
Date Made
1966
Creators
Place of Creation
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
99.12.13
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Metal
Plastic
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 7.25 in
Width: 8.75 in
Length: 4 in
Inscriptions
written inside lid:
LEHMAN
on lunchbox:
GET / SMART / 1966 TALENT ASSOCIATES / THERMOS DIVISION / KING-SEELEY THERMOS CO.
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