Crow-Elkhart Motor Car Company Radiator Emblem
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content: This radiator badge belonged to a Crow-Elkhart automobile manufactured by the Crow-Elkhart Motor Car Company of Elkhart, Indiana. The company was incorporated by Martin Crow in 1909 and operated until 1924. Crow-Elkhart produced a variety of different car models during its period of production including coupes, sedans, touring cars, and roadsters. This red and white heart-shaped emblem has a red center decorated with a silver elk’s head. Around the head is silver lettering that reads “Crow/Elk/Hart.”
label: Description
content: 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.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Radiator Emblems
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hubert G. Larson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.325528.066
label: accession number
content: 260303
label: catalog number
content: 325528.066
objectType: label: Object Name
content: emblem, radiator
label: Other Terms
content: emblem, radiator; Road; Automobile