Wheaties cereal box featuring Michael Jordan: Museum Object and Cultural History
Wheaties cereal box featuring Michael Jordan: Date: 1990s. Manufactured by: General Mills Inc., American, founded 1866. Subject of: Michael Jordan, American, born 1963.
The object in the museum catalogue
A Wheaties cereal box featuring Michael Jordan. The box depicts Jordan holding a basketball above his head and dressed in his Chicago Bulls uniform. The box also features the Chicago Bulls logo and blue text that reads: [1996 / Champions!].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1990s
- Manufactured by: General Mills Inc., American, founded 1866
- Subject of: Michael Jordan, American, born 1963
- Subject of: Chicago Bulls, American, founded 1966
- Type: boxes (containers)
- Medium: ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: Flattened: 16 1/8 × 11 × 1/16 in. (41 × 27.9 × 0.2 cm)
- Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Place made: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Athletes
- Topic: Basketball
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2014.214
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Damion Thomas
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1996 General Mills, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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