Commemorative keyring, Boston Wool Trade Association dinner, 1934
date: label: Date made
content: 1934
name: label: manufacturer
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: Commemorative keyring (medal on a short chain), silver-tone metal and enamel; Boston Wool Trade Association dinner, 1934. Image of 3 sheep in a field – enameling in green/blue/white. Whitehead & Hoag Co. (Manufacturer, probably); Newark, NJ. Inscribed on reverse: "Annual dinner 1934." Boston was the center of the US wool trade from the mid 19th century until shortly after the Korean War, with more than 600 wool brokerage firms in the 1930s.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection - #: 1995.92.3; Gift of Robert L. Williams
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: manufacturer
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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: 2017.0232.35
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.35
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Object Name
content: keyring
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, enamel (overall material)