Fire Badge "18th Annual Convention, New Jersey, Exempt Firemen's Association"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The red ribbon badge belonged to a delegate to the 18th annual convention of the New Jersey Exempt Firemen’s Association in Englewood, New Jersey on May 18, 1904. While organizations for exempt firemen (those with five years of volunteer service) had existed in prior to 1889, an act of the New Jersey legislature in 1889 provided for the incorporation of local exempt associations and the formation of a state association of exempt firemen. It also established an annual state convention in May for which five delegates would be selected from each local association to represent their chapter in any voting matters.
label: Description
content: This badge would have belonged to such a delegate. The ribbon has an upper pin behind a bronze-colored metal frame holding a paper insert that reads “DELEGATE” in black on a white background. A circular painted image depicts a fireman with trumpet, flanked by a hook and ladder cart and a steam engine in a bronze frame hanging from a blue ribbon anchored to the frame. The red ribbon reads “18th ANNUAL/CONVENTION/NEW JERSEY/EXEMPT FIREMEN’S/ASSOCIATION/ENGLEWOOD, N.J./MAY 18, 1904” in gold text.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Fire Fighting and Law Enforcement
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content: Work
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0233.1399
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.1399
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge, fireman's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, ribbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm