Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation token in 1906. 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 circular hole in the center.
- Obverse: The legend reads: MUNICIPAL TRACTION CO./ CLEVELAND.
- Reverse: The legend reads: 3 CENT TICKET 1906.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- Municipal Traction Company
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1906
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.2 cm; 7/8 in
- Object Name
- token
