Medal, Peace Dale Mfg. Co.; Exposition Universelle, 1889.
date: label: Date made
content: 1889
notes: label: Description
content: Medal, "REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / PEACE DALE MANUF. COMPANY / EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE 1889 PAX / LOUIS BOTTEE / BRONZE". A nude female angel blowing a horn sitting on a branch of an oak tree; France standing beside tree; 5 pointed star with rays above; mill's name on plate below; Vx. man seated left, half-draped; with tools, anvil, gear, table, vials, woman seated with helmet, one hand to head, other holding an olive branch, 1889 below, Eiffel Tower, exposition buildings; sculptor's name on each side. Tarnished; evidence of red wax, maybe someone took an impression of the medal.
label: Description
content: Representative of the American textile industry’s involvement in a range of community and national fairs, expositions, and commemorations from the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 through the Century of Progress exposition (Chicago centenary) in 1933.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection - #: 1979.54; From Peace Dale Mfg. Co./ Stevens Mills.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2017.0232.12
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.12
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)