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- Conneaut Ohio Automobile Club Badge, 1920-1932 - Twentieth-century motorists who belonged to automobile clubs attached badges or emblems to their vehicles. These membership badges were displayed prominently on radiators, license plates, bumpers, or elsewhere on the car. The badges helped identify members and promoted the organization. Badges, like this one, were used by members of the Ohio State Automobile Association from Conneaut in the 1920s and 1930s.
- 1920-1932
- Collections - Artifact
Conneaut Ohio Automobile Club Badge, 1920-1932
Twentieth-century motorists who belonged to automobile clubs attached badges or emblems to their vehicles. These membership badges were displayed prominently on radiators, license plates, bumpers, or elsewhere on the car. The badges helped identify members and promoted the organization. Badges, like this one, were used by members of the Ohio State Automobile Association from Conneaut in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Baldwin "Consolidation" Steam Locomotive, 1909 - Locomotives like this hauled heavy freight at relatively slow speeds. These brutes were based on practicality and increasing understandings of scientific principles, not aesthetics. This locomotive brought iron ore south and coal north on the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, connecting Pittsburgh with Lake Erie. The B&LE played a limited but utterly crucial role in a nationally important heavy industry: steel.
- 1909
- Collections - Artifact
Baldwin "Consolidation" Steam Locomotive, 1909
Locomotives like this hauled heavy freight at relatively slow speeds. These brutes were based on practicality and increasing understandings of scientific principles, not aesthetics. This locomotive brought iron ore south and coal north on the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, connecting Pittsburgh with Lake Erie. The B&LE played a limited but utterly crucial role in a nationally important heavy industry: steel.
- Little Boy in a Toy Car near a Christmas Tree with More Toys, 1905 -
- 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Little Boy in a Toy Car near a Christmas Tree with More Toys, 1905