Gerald E. Thomas, TV Dinner Papers
Scope and Contents
Gerald E. Thomas, TV Dinner Papers consists of biographical materials, newspaper articles, awards and nominations, TV and radio interviews, correspondence, financial ledgers, inter-department memo and reports, packaging, and other materials related to the invention of the TV dinner, C.A. Swanson & Sons, Campbell Soup Company, and the American frozen food industry. Art materials include correspondence, photographs, price lists, art exhibition catalogs, and audiovisual materials relating to the Mrs. Paul’s Kitchen Artist of America ‘74 exhibition and Grand Central Art Gallery in New York City, and Western American Heritage prints. Also included are World War II photographs, map, and a scrapbook that documents Thomas’s experience during the Battle of Okinawa, Japan in 1945. Significant materials include the original TV dinner cellular acetate overlay packaging, original cardboard frozen food packaging, and various models of aluminum and plastic TV dinner trays.
Dates
- 1926-2005
Creator
- Thomas, Gerald Ehrmann, 1922-2005 (Person)
Extent
12 Boxes
14.0 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Processed
- Dinners and dining -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Frozen foods -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Inventors -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Quick and easy cooking Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
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