Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2017.037.05
- Place of Origin:
- United States
- Date:
- circa 1950
- Description:
- President's badge, Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Gold. Maltese cross suspended from bar pin bearing word "PRESIDENT". Cross bears words "WOMANS", "RELIEF", "CORPS", and "1883" on the four arms. Cross has circular center with image of soldiers and children. Suspended from bar pin is shield-shaped gold pendant with monogram "FCL" on red enamel. Reverse of cross engraved "Presented / to / Doris Nordquist / BY / Corps #155 / Millbury, / Mass."; stamped "10K".
- Material:
- Metal
Gold
Enamel - Dimensions:
- H-2.7 W-1.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Adeline E. (Gray) Brown Bonner (1887-1946) of Concord, NH, a member of the Department of New Hampshire, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and then by her daughter, Frances L. Brown (1916-2005) of Concord.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sharon Gordon
- Subjects:
- Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic
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