Toy Truck
name: label: maker
content: Kenton Hardware Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Kenton Hardware Company of Kenton, Ohio made this cast-iron toy truck during the 1920s. The red truck has wooden barrels in its rear bed, and the word “Speed” in raised letters on the 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
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Kenton
topic: label: Subject
content: Toys
label: Subject
content: Trucks
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: 1971.295669.416
label: catalog number
content: 295669.416
label: accession number
content: 295669
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, truck, pickup
label: Other Terms
content: Toy, Truck, with Driver and Barrels; Toy