Medal
- Title:
- New Hampshire Agricultural Society
- Object Name:
- Medal
- Object ID:
- 2018.038
- Creator:
- Herrick, Henry W. (1824-1906); Barber, William (1807-1879)
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1873
- Description:
- Medal. Cast bronze. Circular. Obverse: "NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY" with design showing a woman in a neoclassical gown holding a wreath and a shield with New Hampshire State Seal on it; with anvil, plow, and fruits and vegetables; "BARBER F. / HERRICK D." at bottom edge. Reverse: "AWARDED TO / George H. Tufts. / Leather Scarfing & / Splitting Machine / 1873."; border design of fruits and vegetables and an arm and hammer at top.
- Material:
- Metal
Bronze - Dimensions:
- D-0.25 Dia-2.35 inches
- Provenance:
- The New Hampshire State Agricultural Society was founded at a public meeting in Manchester on December 12, 1849. The organization was incorporated by the state legislature on June 26, 1850, with "the object of the Society being to improve the condition of agriculture, horticulture, mechanism, domestic arts, and manufactures" in the state. Each year the Society sponsored a state fair held in a different city around New Hampshire, providing awards for the best examples of animals, produce, machines, products, domestic textiles, etc., made in the state.
George H. Tufts (1817-1893) was born in Billerica, MA, and had moved to Lowell by 1839, where he worked as a shoe pattern maker. He next moved to Worcester. After 1865 Tufts purchased a farm in Hooksett, NH, where he lived with his family until his death in 1893. On September 30, October 1, and October 2, 1873, the New Hampshire Agricultural Society held the New Hampshire State Fair in Manchester. George H. Tufts received a bronze medal from the Society for a leather splitting and scarfing machine as well as awards for potatoes, sweet corn, calves, geese, and pop-corn. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Frieda Burrowes
- Subjects:
- Awards, Medals, Agricultural products, Agricultural societies, Agriculture, Anvil, Plows, Fruit, Corn, Vegetables, Arm and hammer, State seal (NH)
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