Lunchbox, Julia, 1969
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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. Julia was a ground-breaking sitcom, with singer-actress Diahann Caroll the first to portray an African-American woman in a professional occupation, as a nurse, mother, and Vietnam War widow.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Lunchbox
Date Made
1969
Creators
Place of Creation
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
99.12.29
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Metal
Plastic
Dimensions
Height: 7.25 in
Width: 8.75 in
Length: 4 in
Inscriptions
JULIA / THERMOS / 1969 BY SAVANNAH PRODUCTS, INC. / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / THERMOS DIVISION / KING-SEELEY THERMOS CO.
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