National Sale Engineering Corp Key Ring
notes: label: Description
content: This key ring and fob were owned by Eugene B. Johnson (October 18, 1915 - November 22, 2007), who worked for over fifty years in the tool and die manufacturing field. Born on a Michigan farm where his family had worked for over a century, Johnson would spend almost his whole life in Michigan. After working as salesmen at the National Sales Engineering Corporation, he and his brother-in-law Fred Schulz bought that company and started a second company, Johnson-Shulz Machine Sales. Johnson continued to travel to make sales for both companies and retired as the vice president of both. This key ring fob celebrates the 50th anniversary of National Sales Engineering Corporation; one side reads “NATIONAL SALES ENGINEERING CORP./ 15925/ W. McNichols Rd./Detroit, MI. 48235/ (313) 272-4220” and the other “50th ANNIVERSARY/1918-1968.” Johnson had begun working for the corporation in 1956 and continued there for over thirty years, until his retirement in 1987.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kathleen Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0187.09
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0187.09
label: accession number
content: 2008.0187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: key ring
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic; metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.81 cm x .3175 cm