4-H Home Economics
date: label: date made
content: circa 1990
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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Matt took his Casper-winning cornbread entry to the Wyoming State Fair. He thought that he'd have won a higher-ranked ribbon but the cornbread was getting dried out by the time of the State Fair.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue ribbon with gold printing and the 4-H logo from the Wyoming State Fair. Paper entry form attached via blue string. Form indicates the ribbon was awarded for a food entry in Home Economics at the fair.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Norwalk
topic: label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
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: 2019.0004.22
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.22
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ribbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric; cotton; paper; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: ribbon: 6 1/4 in x 2 in; 15.875 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: entry form: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm