Street Railway Conductor's Cap, Middlesex & Boston Street Railway
notes: label: Description
content: This cap was used by the donor, H. Lincoln Harrison, during his career as a street railway conductor for the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company. Harrison bought the cap in 1926 and used it into the 1940s while conducting streetcars. The cap is part of a uniform which Harrison donated, including a coat.
label: Description
content: The cap's shape became similar as well for street railway conductors, from the beginning of the traditional electric-trolley era in the1880s through to its end in the 1950s. The style of uniform for streetcar motormen and conductors derived directly from the practice on mainline railroads. Whether the transit-company employee was a motorman or conductor was shown by a metal cap badge of brass or nickel plated alloy. There was usually no other ornamentation, other than perhaps a string of braid around the front of the headband.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Street Railways
label: Subject
content: Transit
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Work
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H. Lincoln Harrison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.335256.03
label: accession number
content: 316480
label: catalog number
content: 335256.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap, street railway conductor
label: Other Terms
content: cap, street railway conductor; Rail
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 19.685 cm x 11.43 cm