Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Radiator Emblem
notes: label: Description
content: This radiator emblem belonged to a Pierce-Arrow automobile manufactured by the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company around 1928. The Pierce-Arrow was manufactured from 1901 until 1934 in Buffalo, New York in a variety of models and body styles. This emblem has a white enamel background, with a dove holding a branch in its beak at the top. The middle of the emblem features a shield with helmeted crest. Three doves adorn the shield, with a red stripe down the center that reads “PIERCE-ARROW.” A curled ribbon at the bottom of the emblem reads “DIXIT ET FECIT,” Latin for “said and did.”
label: Description
content: Radiator emblems are small, colorful metal plates bearing an automobile manufacturer's name or logo that attached to the radiators grilles of early automobiles. Varying in shape and size, the emblems served as a small branding device, sometimes indicating the type of engine, place of manufacturing, or using an iconic image or catchy slogan to advertise their cars make and model. This emblem is part of the collection that was donated by Hubert G. Larson in 1964.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Radiator Emblems
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hubert G. Larson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.325528.190
label: accession number
content: 260303
label: catalog number
content: 325528.190
objectType: label: Object Name
content: emblem, radiator
label: Other Terms
content: emblem, radiator; Road; Automobile