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USA - Company/Subject Index of Tins

The majority of the tins representing all the companies or subjects listed below on this INDEX page, were originally sold with a food or beverage item in them.  I'd say the 1990's decade probably had the greatest number of special-decorative-commemorative U. S. food product tins.  This will be verified the day in the future when all the tins are documented here!😉  Donna Kozak, Founder

The beginning -- I pretty much picked this up on the way out of the country for the next 9 years. It seemed like it would be a touch of home. (1982)
The beginning -- I pretty much picked this up on the way out of the country for the next 9 years. It seemed like it would be a touch of home. (1982)

Here's a preview of the historic lineup of subjects & companies with tins representing the USA.  The majority of tins were originally sold with a food item in it.  This page is THE MAIN USA INDEX LIST.  As tins are posted on the noted pages in this color (with an underline as a link), the names on this & those pages will be set in bold print when photos of those tins are posted.

Food Groups included in this A-C column besides individual company listings:
Menu/Index Page for:  "USA - A - B"
1)  Baking Powder & Baking Soda 
2)  Beer, Soda Cans, Liquor, Wine

Menu/Index Page for: "USA - Coca-Cola"

Menu/Index Page for: "USA - C"
3)  Candy - Gum
4)  Cereals
5)  Cocoa - Hot Chocolate
6)  Coffee

Menu/Index Page:  "USA - A - B"
for the following:

FOODS – Assorted

Aunt Jemima (pancakes)

G R O U P:
1) Baking Powder & Baking Soda
Arm & Hammer (a box)
Calumet Baking Powder
Clabber Girl (baking powder)
. . . . . (& paper wrapper, plastic cover )
Fleishmann (baking powder)
K C Baking Powder
Rumford (baking powder box –B. Soda)
End of group ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  

 

G R O U P:
2) Special Beer & Soda Cans of interest; Liquor, Wine, etc.

SODA:
7-Up
A & W
Canada Dry
Coca-Cola (NOTE - a separate Index Page)
Pepsi
Sunkist

Anhauser Busch
Budweiser (19 May 2015 Statue of Liberty . . . . . . . . . . w~flag from bar display)
Coors 
Frozen Run (PA Black Bear)
*Miller High Life
*New Glarus Brewing Co. (Ale)
*Old Milwaukee
Orange Bomber MT
*Raised Grain Brewing Co. …..Waukesha, WI
San Fran Cookies & Cream Liquer
*Stubborn Brothers Brewery, …..Shawano, WI
*Titletown Brewing Co (Green Bay, WI)
 Three Floyds Gumballhead Pale Ale *Titletown Brewing Co (Green Bay, WI)
Virtue Cider
Waterloo Sparkling Water…..

*Italics = Wisconsin

Maud Borup "Beer Cans" w/Bread Mix

A German Wine made in the U.S.
. . . . . #2927 Kayser
End of group ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Big Mac"

Boy Scouts' Trails End Popcorn

Brown Bag Original Cookies

END OF "USA - A - B" INDEX PAGE

Index Page:  USA - C 

Campbell's Soups

G R O U P:
3) Candy- Gum
After Eight
Andes Mints
Barton's
Boston Baked Beans (candy)
Baby Ruth; Baseball
Brach's
Everton
Fanny Farmer
Ghirardelli
GooGoo Cluster
Hershey
Lancaster Co.-Simon's Candy
Life Savers
3 Musketeers
M & M's
M & M Peanut
Mars Bars
Milky Way
Mrs. Leland's Old Fash. Butter Bits
Necco
- - - Nestlé
Nestlé Bit-O-Honey
Nestlé Butterfinger
Nestlé Crunch
Nestlé Sweet Tarts
Old Mission Candies
Peeps
Reese's Rocky Mountain Chocolate
Roca
Russell Stover
Scripture Candy
See's Candies
Skittles
Snickers
Starburst
Swiss Colony
"The Chiefs Jelly Beans"
Tootsie Roll
Twix
Werther's Original
Whitman's
Willy Wonka
Wrigley's
End of group 3) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

G R O U P:
4) Cereals
All Bran
Chex Party Mix
Cream of Wheat
Gerber's (cereal)
Kellogg's Corn Flakes
Kellogg's Rice Krispies
Quaker Oats
Shredded Wheat
End of group 4) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Chicago Candy Capitol" (Navy Pier) 

G R O U P:
5) Cocoa - Hot Chocolate
Carnation Hot Cocoa
Hershey's Cocoa
McSteven's Kid's Cocoa
"Snoopy" Hot Chocolate - McSteven's
Swiss Colony, The
Van Houten Dutch Cocoa (USA?)
End of group 5) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

G R O U P:
6) Coffee
Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Hills Bros. Coffee
J. A. Folger (coffee)
Maxwell House (coffee)
Proctor & Gamble (coffee)
End of group 6) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Collins Street Bakery (fruitcake)

Cracker Jacks (caramel corn)

END OF "USA - C" INDEX PAGE

I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin - a LOT of German ancestry. What a surprise to find that a candy company in La Crosse, Wis., used this tin stein (with a plastic handle) in which to sell candy. It was made in West Germany, i.e. pre-1989.
I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin - a LOT of German ancestry. What a surprise to find that a candy company in La Crosse, Wis., used this tin stein (with a plastic handle) in which to sell candy. It was made in West Germany, i.e. pre-1989.

Food Groups included in this D-W column  besides individual company listings:
7)  Lebkuchen in the U.S.
8)  Popcorn Cans (HUGE)
9)  Seasonings
. . . & to the end of the alphabet related to food



David's Cookies

Fig Newtons (100th Ann)

Fleishmann (yeast)

Gold Medal-Washburn Crosby (flour)

Heinz Pearls
H. J. Heinz Pickles

Hungry Jack (pancake, etc.)

Lady Walton's (Dallas)

G R O U P:
7) Lebkuchen in the U.S. - 50-70+ years old:
Ericann's - Chicago
McNally's - Ohio
Roll Biscuit Co., NY (Two Bees)
End of group 7) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Little Debbie

Lipton's Tea

Log Cabin (Maple Syrup)

Martin's Wisconsin Cherries

Meadow Gold Vanilla Ice Cream

Mom & Popcorn

Mr. Peanut

Mrs. Fields

Nabisco
Nabisco Oreos
Nabisco – Uneeda Biscuits

National Biscuit Co (Oreo)

Nestle
Nestle Pretzel
Nestle Toll House

Newman's Own Pretzels

Orville Redenbacher Popcorn

"Peppermint Crunch Cookies" (by Land's End, . . . . . Dodgeville WI)

Peter Pan Peanut Butter

Pilgrim Fruit Cake (very old)

Pillsbury Flour, Cookbooks, & more

Pirouline Rolled Wafers

Planters-Pretzels

Planter's Peanuts

G R O U P:
8) Popcorn Cans- HUGE (3+ Gallon size)
12 Days-Xmas
1966 Olympics-Atlanta
All Victorian Angels
Angels
CocaCola
CocaCola Ad signs
CocaCola cars
Coca Cola Santas
CocaCola World Map
Country Simple Art, 4 panels
cows: "Silent Night Holy Cow"
Globe around the tin
Home on the Plains, etc.
NY
Olympics
Orange Santa/Stained Glass
"Peace be To This House"
Pepsi advertising signs
Sat Even Post-Rockwell
Statue of Liberty 1776-1976
Stockbridge, MA (Pretzels)
Toy Soldiers
Windmill & Santa's Elves
End of group 8) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

PopPourri Pop Corn

Princeton Popcorn Co.

Pure Maple Syrup

Purina Biscuits

Ritz Crackers

Saltina Biscuit

Saltine Crackers

Sam's Club

G R O U P:
9) Seasonings
Crown Colony (Cream of Tartar)
Durkee
French's
McCormick
Pure Test (Cream of Tartar)
Red Owl
Schilling
Tone's
Wagner's Seasoning
Watkins 
End of group 9) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Smuckers (jam, jelly)

"Snoopy"

Sturgis Pretzels (Reading, PA)

Sun Maid Raisins

Sunshine Biscuits (IL)

Tetley Tea

Toll House (chocolate chips)

Uncle Ben's Rice

Uneeda Biscuits

Vermont Common Crackers

Walmart's own Cookie Tins

Welch's (jam)

"What's Poppin" PA Dutch

Wheat Thins (crackers)

William Sonoma 

Every once in awhile in the German flohmarkts, I'd come across a wooden "salt box" which I'd buy as "old world kitchenalia." But never having seen any in people's homes during my years, I never understood the purpose until I did a "search" of "why people have salt boxes." Oh, my, what a wealth of historical knowledge of Grandma's world. And what a treasure to have a representative one in tin!
Every once in awhile in the German flohmarkts, I'd come across a wooden "salt box" which I'd buy as "old world kitchenalia." But never having seen any in people's homes during my years, I never understood the purpose until I did a "search" of "why people have salt boxes." Oh, my, what a wealth of historical knowledge of Grandma's world. And what a treasure to have a representative one in tin!

Groups 10) through 15) in this column.
This is all of the Non-Food Name companies besides individual company & subject listings.

10)  Recipe Boxes
11)  Artists
12)  Military
13)  Movie & Music Stars
14)  Sewing
15)  Sports
16)  History 

G R O U P:

10) RECIPE BOXES
Bisquick
Campbell Soup
Cream Cheese
Cream of Wheat
Crock Pot – 1
Crock Pot – 2
Cupcakes
C. W. Post
Hersheys
Land 'O Lakes
M & M Ragu
"Village Library"
End of group 10) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

NON – FOOD NAMES
Most of these were sold with a food or drink item in the tin.

Alice in Wonderland

ALPO (dog food)

American Girls 


G R O U P:
11) Artists
Currier & Ives
Mary Engelbreit
Norman Rockwell
Terry Redlin 
Thomas Kinkade 
Thomas Nast
End of group 11) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Boy Scouts

Bugs Bunny (cartoons)

Crayola Color Crayons

Farmer's Almanac (200th Ann)

Farming & Animals

Ferry Morse Seed Co.

G I Joe (game)

Girl Scouts

Good Housekeeping (magazine, cookbooks)

Hallmark (cards, stationery)

Hummel

Kodak (photography)

Looney Tunes (cartoons)

Lunch Pails

Macy's (house)

Marshall Field, Chicago

Mickey Mouse (cartoons)


G R O U P:
12) Military
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Military
Pork Issue
AAFES-100 Year Anniversary
End of group 12) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Milkbone Dog Biscuits

Monopoly (game)

G R O U P:
13) Movie & Music Stars
Elvis
Fred Astaire
End of group 13) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Noah's Ark

Nursery Rhymes & Stories

Olympics 1996-Atlanta

Plaza Lights (Kansas City.)

Sat. Evening Post (magazine)

Scrabble (board game)


G R O U P:
14) Sewing
Clark's ONT Sewing Thread J. P. Coats 
Simplicity Patterns
Singer (sewing machines)
End of group 14) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Snoopy & Peanuts (cartoons)(music box)


G R O U P:
15) Sports
Baseball
Football Stadium
End of group 15) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The Broadmoor (Hotel) (1939

Tonka Toys

Walt Disney

Willy Wonka

G R O U P:
16) History
American Flag
Bald Eagle
Boston Tea Party
Chisholm Trail
Christopher Columbus
3 Clipper Ships
Covered Bridge
Drum w/Soldiers
Great Moments
George Washington
American Indians
Lancaster Co. - Amish
Liberty Bell
Lincoln Gettysburg Address
Map of the World
Mayflower
Millennium
Mt. Rushmore
Mt. Vernon
Old Missions
Olympics 1996 Atlanta
Pocahontas
Pony Express/Santa Fe Trail
Presidents of the U. S.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Statue of Liberty
U. S. Constitution 200th Ann.
Valley Forge



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