"Lifetime" Dinnerware [Watertown Manufacturing Company]
- Published/Created:
- Watertown, Connecticut
1947 - Date Depicted:
- 1900 AD - 1949 AD
- Materials:
- melamine
- Notes:
- One of the new plastics refined during World War II was Melamine, a formaldehyde-based thermosetting compound that was scratch resistant, odorless, and tasteless. It gained favor as lightweight shipboard dinnerware for the Navy, but in peacetime companies
- Associated Names:
- Hedu, Jon, fl. ca. 1945 [Designer]
- Topics:
- Industrial Design -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 257495
- Genre:
- containers: dishes (vessels) (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Tools, Equipment & Instruments - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Note:
- R: Sandak (Arts of the US DC 180)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- Portfolio Item ID: 19194
- OID:
- 317635
- PID:
- digcoll:2225345