Badge, Membership
Object number2007.56.178 a-c
Manufacturer
Whitehead & Hoag Company
Date1913
OriginNewark, NJ
MediumMetal/Silk
Credit LineHeinz History Center Collection
DescriptionYellow ribbon with medals. Top piece: embossed image of an eagle with spread wings, claws gripping two crossed cannons above group of cannonballs. Attached via two loops is an embossed bronze piece with red, white and blue enamel text. Connected to bottom edge via two chains is a pewter medal with an embossed image of a city with a mountain in background; text on top and below image. Maker's mark on reverse. Attached via one loop on bottom edge is a circular bronze medal with an embossed bust of male looking to the left, wearing a suit and a long mustache; text around edge and to left of image. Rectangular, white box.Dimensions(a) Height: 5.625 ; Width: 2(b) H: 7 ; W: 2.625 ; Depth: ~.625
(c) H: 6.75 ; W: 2.5 ; D: .5
Inscriptions(a)
Second piece of metal from the top has embossed red, white and blue enamel text "REPRESENTATIVE / G.A.R."
Third piece of metal from top has text on top: "INDUSTRIAL / HISTORICAL COMMERCIAL"; below image, "CHATTANOOGA, TENN. / THE DYNAMO OF DIXIE".
Bottom medal has text around edge, "FORTY-SEVENTH NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT G.A.R. SEPTEMBER 15-20"; to left of image, "1913".
(b)
Handwritten in black ink: "Chattanauge / Tenn / 1913" [sic].
Marks(a)
"THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. / NEWARK, N.J." [Also repeated on second medal].
Historical NotesForty-seventh GAR National Encampment, Chattanooga, Tenn. September 18-19, 1913. Membership: 180,227. Found in collection.
Related institution
Grand Army of the Republic
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