Land of the Giants Lunch Box: Museum Object and Cultural History
Land of the Giants Lunch Box: Date made: 1968. collected for nmah: Smithsonian Institution. maker: Aladdin.
The object in the museum catalogue
This metal lunch box was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1968, and includes a thermos bottle. The lunch box features imagery from Land of the Giants, a television show that ran on ABC from 1968-1970. The show was produced by Irwin Allen, known for other science fiction and adventure classics like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, and The Time Tunnel. This show centered around the adventures of the crew of the spacecraft Spindrift, marooned on an alien planet whose residents, while humanoid, were 72 feet tall.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1968
- collected for nmah: Smithsonian Institution
- maker: Aladdin
- Object Name: lunch box
- Object Name: lunch box w/ thermos
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 8 1/4 in x 8 in x 4 in; 20.955 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm
- general subject association: School Personal Equipment
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- general subject association: Television
- ID Number: 1988.3160.59
- catalog number: 1988.3160.59
- nonaccession number: 1988.3160
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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