Smithsonian Collections
The Lone Ranger Lunch Box
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Description (Brief)
- This tin lunch box was made by ADCO Liberty Manufacturing Corporation and has a metal snap for a hinged lid and a collapsible metal handle. The lunch box features drawings from the television series The Lone Ranger on the lid and back, which ran from 1949-1957 on ABC. The front features the Lone Ranger uttering his trademark phrase “Hi-Yo Silver!,” and the back is both the Lone Ranger and Tonto riding their horses, the Ranger saying “Hi-Yo Silver,” and Tonto saying “Get-em Up Scout!”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- King Seeley Thermos
- ADCO Liberty Mfg. Corp.
- Date made
- 1954
- Credit Line
- Gift of Allan Woodall, Jr.
- Physical Description
- tin (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 cm x 18 cm x 9 cm; 9 1/16 in x 7 1/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- Object Name
- lunch box
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Lunch Boxes
- Family & Social Life
- ID Number
- 2001.3100.04
- nonaccession number
- 2001.3100
- catalog number
- 2001.3100.04
- subject
- School Personal Equipment
- Lone Ranger
- Television
