Collections Item Detail
License plate: 1950 New Jersey motor vehicle registration plate. Pair as issued.
Object/Artifact
License plate: 1950 New Jersey motor vehicle registration plate for passenger vehicle. Pair as issued.
Stamped metal, 6-1/2" high x 10-3/4" high; paint: black letters on straw (or buff) background: HO 18S
Found at 703 Clinton Street, Hoboken.
Hudson County was designated on the plates then by a two letter code, HA to HZ or IA to IZ. Thus HO = H for Hudson County and the O is one of the assigned second letters in that code system. It cannot be definitively stated that HO designated it for use on a HOboken vehicle.
2014.024.0001
2014.024
Staff, Collected by
Field Collection
Museum Collections.
1950
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-05-23