Badge, Commemorative
- Object Name:
- Badge, Commemorative
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.186.1
- Creator:
- Whitehead Hoag Company
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- 1910
- Description:
- Badge, ribbon, Return of Sons and Daughters, Portsmouth, NH, July 4, 1910. Circular metal medallion with brass edge and celluloid face, printed with Portsmouth city seal in blue on white. Reverse of medallion stamped "WHITEHEAD HOAG CO / BADGES / PAT. JUNE 12 94. / NEWARK, N.J." Medallion suspended from blue silk ribbon. Ribbon printed in gold, "1853 - 1873 / RETURN OF / SONS DAUGHTERS / CITY OF / PORTSMOUTH, N.H. / JULY 4, 1910 / 1883 - 1910". Reverse of ribbon printed in gold, "WHITEHEAD HOAG CO. / NEWARK, NEW JERSEY". Stamped brass nameplate pinned to top of ribbon. Printed paper label inserted in nameplate: 'CITY GOVERNMENT" in blue, covered with celluloid. Back of nameplate stamped "WH CO NEWARK, N.J PAT. AUG 1.99".
- Material:
- Metal
Brass
Silk
Celluloid - Dimensions:
- H-4.8 W-2 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
- Subjects:
- Reunions, Trains, Locomotives, Sailboats, Sailing ships, Factories, Wharves, City government
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