embodied on
Steel beer can
Specific artifact/package design is linked to a generic format without collapsing the identities.
Material-culture artifact · can
American Beer Can with Handle
Smithsonian-preserved steel beer can with a soldered carrying handle, representative of a short-lived package experiment.
Artifact facts
What this record represents
- Artifact kind
- can
- Identity class
- package or container object
- Date
- c.1933–1950 practice context
- Creators
- None asserted for this identity.
- Brand/brewery context
- None asserted for this identity.
- Place context
- None asserted for this identity.
- Package format
- Steel beer can
- Glassware form
- None asserted for this identity.
- Design context
- Post-Prohibition can experimentation
- Marks referenced
- None asserted for this identity.
- Media records
- None asserted for this identity.
Rights ledger
Citation/reference only by default
- Recorded uses
- reference · derived facts
- Constraints
- copyright · trademark · trade dress · museum archive terms · photography or scan rights
- Trademark reference
- descriptive reference only
- Review
- Item/use-specific review required
Metadata/reference use only by default. Reproduction of artwork, marks, photographs, scans, or trade dress requires item/use-specific rights review.
Material record
Physical/material notes
- steel
- metal handle
BEU analysis
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Original metadata/analysis only. This text is not a substitute for viewing the cited source object where rights permit.
- Package utility and printed brand surface are present in one object, but the generic can format remains a separate node.
Knowledge graph
Documented relationships
Design context, creators, brands, places, formats, marks, and media remain separate nodes.
uses design context
Post-Prohibition can experimentation
Artifact participates in a sourced BEU design/material-culture context; the context is not itself an artifact.
Graph discovery · explainable
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Ranked by a transparent navigation heuristic, never by quality, taste, popularity, authority, or commercial value.
design context
Post-Prohibition can experimentation
Package experimentation around canned beer after repeal, including the handled steel-can object preserved by Smithsonian.
Navigation heuristic: 39. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 8 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
uses_design_context · forward
American Beer Can with Handle — uses design context → Post-Prohibition can experimentation.
Artifact is produced within or materially demonstrates a sourced printing, design, typography, production, advertising, or material-culture context. Artifact participates in a sourced BEU design/material-culture context; the context is not itself an artifact.
Evidence: American Beer Can with Handle
packaging format
Steel beer can
Steel beer can as a generic material/package identity.
Navigation heuristic: 39. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 8 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
embodied_on · forward
American Beer Can with Handle — embodied on → Steel beer can.
Specific design/material-culture artifact is embodied on or instantiated through a generic package or glassware format; the artifact and format remain separate identities. Specific artifact/package design is linked to a generic format without collapsing the identities.
Evidence: American Beer Can with Handle
Provenance
Sources and source-level rights
Source authority, artifact copyright, trademark rights, and reproduction rights are separate questions.
archive museum
American Beer Can with Handle
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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