New York City Transit Authority Fare Token
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
name: label: referenced
content: New York City Transit Authority
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation token starting during in 1953. 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. The token has a central legend of NYC, and the “Y” is punched out of the center.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: The legend reads: NEW YORK CITY/TRANSIT AUTHORITY
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: 1981.0296.1420
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.7 cm; 11/16 in