Commemorative medal, Slater Cotton Centenary, 1890
date: label: Date made
content: 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Medal, brass. Made for the Slater Cotton Centenary 1890-Pawtucket, RI. Depicts the Slater Mill. Medal was an official souvenir for the cotton centenary in Pawtucket, R.I. Slater Mill is depicted on front. 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 - #: 1985.8.2; museum purchase
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
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: 2017.0232.17
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.17
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/16 in x 2 1/2 in; .15875 cm x 6.35 cm