Matthew Shepard's Ring
date: label: date made
content: 1996
name: label: user
content: Shepard, Matthew
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. Shepard intended to get married someday even though it was not legally possible in his lifetime. He purchased this ring from Reed's while in college. In the box, there is a hand-written note from Matt to the jeweler about how to customize the design.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis and Judy Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0004.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ring
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: jeweler's box: 4.2 cm x 7 cm x 6 cm; 1 21/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: ring box (closed): 3.5 cm x 6.2 cm x 5 cm; 1 3/8 in x 2 7/16 in x 1 31/32 in
label: Measurements
content: ring box (open): 6.8 cm x 6.2 cm x 7.3 cm; 2 11/16 in x 2 7/16 in x 2 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: ring: .5 cm x 2 cm; 3/16 in x 25/32 in