W.J. Dickey & Sons Woolen Mills Commemorative Medal, 1938
date: label: Date made
content: 1938
name: label: Maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: Medal, "WILLIAM JAMES DICKY / 1814 FOUNDER 1896...".A medal commemorating one hundred year anniversary of W. J. Dickey & Sons Woolen Mills, Baltimore, Maryland (the mill is in Ballymena); W. J. Dickey on obverse with writing on each side of bust; Rx. shows a semi-clothed man with his right hand and arm holding an object vertically over a woman seated; a loom right.
label: Description
content: Founded in 1838 in Baltimore by William J Dickey, and operated and expanded first by Dickey’s son, grandson, and great grandson, by the late 1800s the firm owned mills in Oella and “Dickeyville” Md. It was an integrated mill: operations included carding, spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing. The company sold high-end suitings and coatings. The company closed in 1972, one of the last (perhaps the last apart from Woolrich) woolen mills in Pennsylvania. A 1957 assessment of the mill stated that: the firm “operated through a selling agent in New York City, H.R. Leeds Woolen Sales Corporation, which dictates style changes and types of material produced. The company makes no sales promotion efforts. Mr. W. A. Dickey Jr. said, "Our product is our best advertisement." Although W. J. Dickey and Son has no location or cheap labor advantage, but it does have the advantages of having modern machinery, a high level of workers, low worker turnover, a quality product, and experienced, aggressive, and intelligent leadership."
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: From the Cotton Manufacturers Association Manuscript Collection
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.11
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.11
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze, dark brown glaze (overall material)