Hotpoint Electric Toaster
Object Details
- Description
- The quest for the perfect slice of toast led to many innovations in toaster engineering and design. A September 1930 Ladies’ Home Journal advertisement proclaimed this Hotpoint single-slice electric toaster produced “Golden brown slices of scientifically caramelized goodness” as well as being “the most beautifully designed toaster in over twenty-six years of electric appliance leadership.” Hotpoint was a British appliance company founded in 1911. In the 1920s, through a joint venture with General Electric, the two companies began to make electric toasters for homes in both England and the United States.
- Electric toasters, which did not gain real popularity until the late 1920s, were often a symbol of modernism. The toaster’s “Art Deco” styling was a combination of many different art movements of the time. It used geometric shapes and unusual, modern materials to create a new, “modern” aesthetic that became increasingly popular until the great depression.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joyce Barth and Florence E. Scuderi
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1932
- patent date
- 1925-08-25
- ID Number
- 1992.0338.16
- catalog number
- 1992.0338.16
- accession number
- 1992.0338
- catalog number
- 1992.338.16
- maker
- Hotpoint Edison General Electric Appliance Company, Inc.
- Object Name
- toaster
- toaster, electric
- Other Terms
- toaster; Electric
- Physical Description
- steel, chrome-plated (overall material)
- plastic (Bakelite) (overall material)
- mica (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 cm x 19 cm x 13 cm; 7 1/16 in x 7 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Art
- Domestic Furnishings
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Exhibition
- Art in Industry
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- appliances
- Food Culture
- Household Tools and Equipment
- Record ID
- nmah_1118358
