Child's Hand Car, “Irish Mail,” ca. 1900
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Wabash Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Wabash Manufacturing Company of Wabash, Indiana made this hand car during the early 1900s. The hand car is a four-wheeled vehicle propelled by pumping the handlebar and steered with the feet on the front wheels. Colloquially known as an “Irish Mail,” the donor used this as a toy in his youth.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Indiana
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Bicycling
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert C. King
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.312869
label: catalog number
content: 312869
label: accession number
content: 170052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mail, Irish
label: Other Terms
content: Mail, Irish; Road