Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation token in 1919. 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. There is a yellow and brown discoloration on both sides of the token.
- Obverse: The legend reads: UNITED RAILWAYS CO. OF ST. LOUIS/1919.
- Reverse: The legend reads: GOOD FOR/ONE CITY FARE.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- United Railways Co. of St. Louis
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1919
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- white metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.65 cm; 5/8 in
- Object Name
- token
