Fire Badge "Vigilants"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1893
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: This Vigilant Engine Company No. 2 ribbon was made by the Whitehead & Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey around 1893. The ribbon hangs from a pin with the word “VIGILANTS” in black text on a white background, framed by bronze-colored metal. The red, white, and blue colored ribbon supports a small circular medallion with the painted image of a fireman wearing a fire helmet and the text “PAT. W.&H. CO NEWARK, N.J.”
label: Description
content: The ribbon itself is decorated with the image of a silver bust of George Washington. The badge reads “ENGINE CO., NO. 2,/DOVER, N.J./WASHINGTON/FIRE CO., No. 1,/WASHINGTON, N.J./OCT. 4th, 1893” in silver text. The Vigilant Engine Company No. 2 was formed when Dover purchased its second steam engine in 1885. Ribbons like this one commemorated occasions when fire companies visited each other to celebrate their common bond and engage in some friendly competition.
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: 2005.0233.1397
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.1397
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