Toy Double-Decker Bus
notes: label: Description
content: The Kenton Hardware Company of Kenton, Ohio made this cast-iron double decker bus toy during the 1920s. The bus is green and orange with stairs on the outside, and an open top deck. Kenton was one of the major manufacturers of cast iron toys, and auto-related toys were one of their big sellers. Originally called the Kenton Lock Manufacturing Co., this Ohio firm made its first cast iron toy (a bank) in 1893. Kenton began making toy cars in 1903.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Transit
label: Subject
content: Toys
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sears, Roebuck and Co., Collection of American Toys
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1971.295669.090
label: accession number
content: 295669
label: catalog number
content: 295669.090
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy, Autobus
label: Object Name
content: toy, bus
label: Other Terms
content: Toy, Autobus; Toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)