PRTA Transit Token
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation token during the early 20th century. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, medals, coins, and transportation tokens. Three sections in the center of the token are punched out, with the legend PRTA across the middle.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: The legend reads: PRTA
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: The legend reads: GOOD FOR/ONE FARE
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1425
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.65 cm; 5/8 in