Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 4/15/2009
Taking America to Lunch is an online exhibition that includes a sampling of illustrated lunch boxes and beverage containers dating from the 1890s through the 1980s. Students will learn how television changed the metal lunch pails carried by industrial workers and students a century ago into an important commercial vehicle for popular culture.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
Aladdin Industries profited from the success of The Jetsons television cartoon series in...
pop culture, advertisement, twentieth century, commercialization, advertising, 20th century, entertainment, television, container, American Thermos Products Company, children, 1900, movie, school, food, eating, mass-marketing, worker, popular culture, consumer