Button, Commemorative
- Object Name:
- Button, Commemorative
- Object ID:
- 1990.044.05
- Creator:
- Whitehead & Hoag Company -- Manufacturer
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- circa 1896
- Description:
- Button. Black and white of a building on face with "COTTAGE HOSPITAL / WOODSVILLE, N.H." White ribbon with printed red cross attached below button. Printed on cream cardboard backing, "Allied printing / Trades/ Union Label / Council / Newark" in an oval logo, with a "3" to right. Below is printed "Buttons made by the Whitehead & Hoag Co. / Newark, N.J., U.S.A. / Pat. April 14.1896, July 21, 1896."
- Material:
- Textile
Plastic
Metal
Paper - Dimensions:
- W-1.5 L-3.25 D-0.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Donated by Rev. William T. Knapp's three daughters.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Barbara Knapp Hamblett, Martha Knapp Cushman, and Margery Knapp MacRay
- People:
- Knapp, William T. (1896-1983)
- Subjects:
- Crosses, Hospitals, Ribbons, Button badges, Red Cross
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