Object Details
- Description
- During World War II, wedding cakes were a luxury due to sugar rationing and other restrictions. After the war, the wedding cake became a central part of wedding parties and receptions, and cake figure production boomed. In the 1950s, mass production widened the variety of figures available. This figure, made in 1957, is of a bridesmaid. The wedding cake she sat atop apparently included not only the bride and groom but the wedding party as well.
- ca 1957
- ID Number
- 1992.0301.04
- catalog number
- 1992.0301.04
- accession number
- 1992.0301
- catalog number
- 1992.301.4
- Object Name
- figure
- Other Terms
- figure; Decoration
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 cm x 4 cm; 4 5/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Family & Social Life
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Weddings
- Record ID
- nmah_1103717
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-5b4f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
