Toy Ambulance
notes: label: Description
content: The Kenton Hardware Company of Kenton, Ohio made this cast-iron toy ambulance during the 1920s. The ambulance is grey with red crosses and “Ambulance” on each side. 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: 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: 1971.295669.397
label: accession number
content: 295669
label: catalog number
content: 295669.397
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy, Automobile, Ambulance
label: Object Name
content: toy, ambulance
label: Other Terms
content: Toy, Automobile, Ambulance; Toys