Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin China
User: New York Public Library
Date of mug: 2012

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Notes: The New York Public Library held an exhibition from June 22, 2012 to Feb. 17, 2013 titled Lunch Hour NYC that looked "back at more than a century of New York lunches, when the city's early power brokers invented what was yet to be called 'power lunch,' local charities established a 3-cent school lunch and visitors with guidebooks thronged Times Square to eat lunch at the Automat. Drawing on materials from throughout the Library, the exhibition [explored] the ways in which New York City – work-obsessed, time-obsessed, and in love with ingenious new ways to make money – reinvented lunch in its own image."

This mug commemorating the exhibition was made as classic green-lined china with sturdy handle, but supersized for 21^st century attendees to use.

Source:
New York Public Library, Lunch Hour NYC

Contributors:
ID: Paul Trosko
Photos: Susan Phillips