Rouge Plant ID Badge
notes: label: Description
content: This employee ID badge belonged a worker at the sprawling River Rouge Ford auto plant. As factories grew larger in late 1800s and early 1900s, managers issued ID badges to control access. The badge identifies the worker with a letter and a four-digit number; the letter designated the division of the plant the employee worked in. Below badge number “X6560” is a raised image of a Ford plant in the background with the word “Ford” superimposed over the plant. Below is the inscription that reads “Rouge” filled in with black enamel. This style of badge dates from between 1938 until 1966.
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0323.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0323
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0323.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: id badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 5/16 in; 4.445 cm x 3.175 cm x .79375 cm