Louis Schram's Lunch Box
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Object Details
- Description
- This lunch box belonged to Mr. Louis Schram, born July 27, 1894. Schram served in World War I but was rejected for service in the Second World War. Instead, he took a second job in an unidentified war plant in Toledo, Ohio, where he used the lunch box. Toledo was the site of a defense industry boom as home to the Willys-Overland automobile manufacturing plant that produced Jeeps for the military. Schram moved back to Chicago in 1944, and passed away in Wilmette, Illinois, in 1971.
- This black, pressed-metal rectangular lunch pail has a slightly curved top to fit a thermos.
- Credit Line
- Judith S. Cottle
- ca 1944
- ID Number
- 1995.0073.01
- accession number
- 1995.0073
- catalog number
- 1995.0073.01
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 26.67 cm x 11.43 cm
- associated place
- United States: Illinois, Winnetka
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- Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_879808
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-f19f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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