Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.184
- Creator:
- Whitehead Hoag Company
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- 1948
- Description:
- Badge, National Governors' Conference, Wentworth-by-the-Sea, New Castle, NH, 1948. Worn by Dorothy Vaughan, Chair of the Historical Committee. Circular cast bronze medallion with New Hampshire state seal; scalloped edge; cast maker's mark on reverse, "THE WHITEHEAD HOAG CO. / NEWARK,N.J." Medallion suspended by brass chain from rectangular brass nameplate. Typescript paper label inserted in nameplate: "Chairman / Dorothy Vaughn / Historical Committee". White silk ribbon attached to back of nameplate, printed in gold, "NATIONAL / GOVERNORS' / CONFERENCE / WENTWORTH-BY THE SEA, / 1948 / HOST COMMITTEE". Horizontal pin on back of nameplate.
- Material:
- Bronze
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-6 W-2.8 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Vaughan, Dorothy M. (1904-2004)
- Subjects:
- State seal (NH), Governors, Conferences
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