Object Details
- Description
- This radiator emblem belonged to an REO automobile manufactured by REO Motor Car Company around 1920. This vehicle takes its name from the initials of its founder, Ransom Eli Olds, who left Oldsmobile to start his own company in 1905.
- Radiator emblems are small, colorful metal plates bearing an automobile manufacturer's name or logo that attached to the radiators grilles of early automobiles. Varying in shape and size, the emblems served as a small branding device, sometimes indicating the type of engine, place of manufacturing, or using an iconic image or catchy slogan to advertise their cars make and model. This emblem is part of the collection that was donated by Hubert G. Larson in 1964.
- Credit Line
- Hubert G. Larson
- ID Number
- TR.325528.202
- accession number
- 260303
- catalog number
- 325528.202
- Object Name
- emblem, radiator
- Other Terms
- emblem, radiator; Road; Automobile
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- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- Radiator Emblems
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Road Transportation
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_840462
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-7442-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
