Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: Weinman, Adolph A.
notes: label: Description
content: Triangular medal given to Alexander McDannold (b. 1827), an Irish immigrant, iron worker, and inventor of the McDannold surgical chair. The obverse has two standing female figures and “UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOUIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / MCMIV.” The reverse has an eagle, two dolphins, and “GOLD MEDAL / LOUISIANA PURCHASE / EXPOSITION.” The medal was designed by the German-American sculptor, Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870-1952), and struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. L. W. Bryant
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07460
label: catalog number
content: M-07460
label: accession number
content: 220307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Object Name
content: award, medal
label: Other Terms
content: Medal; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 in x 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 7.62 cm x .635 cm