HISTORIC ARTIFACT IDENTIFICATION GUIDE

HISTORIC ARTIFACT IDENTIFICATION GUIDE

TIN CANS

TIN CAN CLASSES

Evaporated milk cans

Meat tins

Sardine tins

Food tins

Solderseam

Sanitary

Can sizes and food contents

EVAPORATED MILK CANS

GENERAL CHRONOLOGY

1856

Gail Borden patents

process for condensing

milk (U.S. Patent No. 15533)

1866

1885

Borden introduces

"Eagle Brand"

milk

"Condensed" milk is first

canned in the United States

1899

"Family Size" (12 oz.)

milk cans introduced

Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co. (later Carnation) produces

milk in 16 oz. cans

1900

Vent hole filler can was

introduced for

evaporated milk

1930

Carnation reduces can

size from 16 oz. to 14.5 oz. to maintain the same

pricing

EVAPORATED MILK CANS

SERIATION

Height (in) 2 7/16

2 3/8 2 7/16 2 1/2 2 15/16

1931-1948 1920-1931

3 7/8

Diameter (in)

2 1/2 1917-1930 (w/o rings) OR 1931-1948 (w/4 embossed rings)

1920-1930 1915-1925 1950-1985

3 14.5/15

3 15/16 4 4 1/4 4 3/8

2 15/16

1917-1929 (no text) OR 1935-1945 ("Punch Here")

1975-1985 (later end has 3-5 embossed rings)

1930-1975 (later end has 3-5 embossed rings)

1917-1929 1917-1929 1915-1930

COURTESY OF DON SIMONIS

Matchstick filler /solder dot / hole-in-top evaporated milk can

(post-1900)

EVAPORATED MILK CAN MEASUREMENT TEMPLATE

MEAT CANS

GENERAL CHRONOLOGY

1872

Large-scale meat

canning began in Chicago

1875

Tapered meat cans introduced by Libby and

Wilson

1895

The tapered meat can was

improved by the Norton Brothers of Chicago, when they added a scored key

wind strip to the large

end of the can

1926

Canned ham (SPAM) was introduced

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