Toy Road Roller: Museum Object and Cultural History
Toy Road Roller: Object Name: Toy Road Roller. Physical Description: metal (overall material). Physical Description: red; green (overall color).
The object in the museum catalogue
The Hubley Manufacturing Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania produced this toy road roller around 1935. Incorporated in 1894, the company made electric train related equipment before moving into the toy business in 1909. The cast iron toys were modeled on actual vehicles or machinery. The Huber mark refers to the Huber Manufacturing Company. Inventor and industrialist Edward Huber's Huber Manufacturing Company made farm machinery in Marion, Ohio. The company is credited with inventing the first workable gasoline tractor.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: Toy Road Roller
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: red; green (overall color)
- Physical Description: iron (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 13.335 cm x 13.97 cm
- Subject: Toys
- ID Number: ER.314637.12613
- accession number: 314637
- catalog number: 314637.12613
- Credit Line: Edith R. Meggers
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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