Object Details
- referenced
- Walt Disney Company
- Aladdin Industries Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- Mickey Mouse Club lunch box used by Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr. The white tin lunch box is decorated and embossed with Disney characters including Goofy, Mickey, Donald, Pluto, and Minnie Mouse. Several different scenes are depicted on the lunch box, including Mickey boucing on a life net and building a house.
- Lonnie Burr is an American entertainer best known for his work on the original 1955-1959 series run of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club. Burr’s parents had worked in vaudeville as a dance team known as “Dot and Dash,” and Burr became a professional performer at five, working in television and radio. In 1955, he was hired by Walt Disney Studios to be one of the twenty four original cast members, called Mouseketeers, of the ABC network series The Mickey Mouse Club. A member of the show’s first string unit, the Red Team, Burr performed in comic sketches, musical numbers, and in the show’s Roll Call segment. After The Mickey Mouse Club ceased production in 1958, Burr worked as both an actor and director for the stage, motion pictures and television.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lonnie Burr
- 1963
- ID Number
- 2004.0298.08
- accession number
- 2004.0298
- catalog number
- 2004.0298.08
- Object Name
- Lunch Box
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 7 in; 20.32 cm x 17.78 cm
- place made
- United States: Tennessee, Nashville
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Lunch Boxes
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- School Personal Equipment
- Record ID
- nmah_1292197
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-baeb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
