Child's Pedal Car
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: Associated Name
content: Latty, Samuel D.
label: maker
content: Kirk-Latty Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This pedal car was made by the Kirk–Latty Manufacturing Company during the early 20th century. Early pedal cars reflected the design of their larger gasoline driven counterparts—often missing lights with starting cranks on the front. This Kirk–Latty's lights seem to have been added to the car at a later date (and they look like they are a product of the 1930s). There is no crank, it seems likely the car was manufactured before in the late 1910s or early 1920s. Almost as soon as the first automobile took to the roads, American children played with car toys, read car books, and even learned how combustion engines worked. Making cars a part of kids' lives-even kids whose families didn't own cars-helped make automobile ownership appealing to future generations of car buyers. Because much of this material targeted boys, it helped shape a society in which women were far less likely to own and drive a car.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert D. Novick
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0265.01
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0265.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pedal car
label: Object Name
content: pedal car
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 20 in x 43 in; 60.96 cm x 50.8 cm x 109.22 cm
label: Measurements
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