Object Details
- Kenton Hardware Company
- Description
- This cast iron toy automobile is emblematic of some of the earliest automobiles, often called runabouts that were hardly more than horseless carriages. Emblematic of this early period in automobile history is the driver steering with a tiller rather than a wheel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Sears, Roebuck and Co., Collection of American Toys
- 1900 - 1905
- ID Number
- 1971.295669.921
- accession number
- 295669
- catalog number
- 295669.921
- Object Name
- Toy, Automobile
- toy, auto
- Other Terms
- Toy, Automobile; Toys
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Kenton
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Toys
- Automobiles
- electricity
- Record ID
- nmah_336198
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-c18c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
