Bridgeport Belt Buckle
notes: label: Description
content: This belt buckle was owned by Eugene B. Johnson (October 18, 1915 - November 22, 2007), a farmer’s son who worked for over fifty years in the tool and die manufacturing field. 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. He continued to travel to make sales for both companies and retired as the vice president of both. The belt buckle has the name “Bridgeport,” a reference to Bridgeport Machines. Bridgeport Machines is the leading manufacturer of milling machines (precise power-driven tools which cut away material), which they provide to sales companies like Johnson’s two companies, which then supplied small tool and die shops.
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: 2008.0187.07
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0187.07
label: accession number
content: 2008.0187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: belt buckle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 6.985 cm x .9525 cm