Object Details
- H. B. Smith Machine Co.
- Description
- The H. B. Smith Machine Co., of Smithville, New Jersey was well-known as the manufacturer of Star bicycles, and apparently offered tricycles such as this one during 1887 and 1888. The wheel size of this one seems to date this tricycle to 1888. According to the donor, Robert Atwater Smith, this vehicle was called the American Lever tricycle, yet there is no evidence in any of the Smith catalogs to substantiate this statement. This tricycle was donated to the Smithsonian in 1901.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert Atwater Smith
- ca 1880
- ID Number
- TR.211501
- catalog number
- 211501
- accession number
- 38279
- Object Name
- Tricycle
- Other Terms
- Tricycle; Road
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_843074
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-81b8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
