Medal, Peace Dale Mfg. Co.; World's Columbian Exposition, 1892
date: label: Date made
content: 1892
name: label: artist
content: Barber, C. F.
label: artist
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
notes: label: Description
content: Medal depicting Christopher Columbus standing with arms stretched out. A figure of a man in the background looking at Christopher Columbus. 1892 (Barber, C. F. (Artist); Saint Gaudens, Augustus (Artist). Awarded to the Peace Dale Mfg Co at the World's Columbian Exposition. Peace Dale’s connection with slave cloth manufacturing makes it an extraordinarily important part of an understudied and certainly under-exhibited part of American history. The company history illustrates a complicated set of issues around race and industry both before and after the Civil War.
label: Description
content: Prize medal: obverse; a full length figure of Columbus landing on soil of the New World he has discovered. He is clothed in armor with a short cloak over the armor of the type worn in that period. Behind are 4 figures who have followed him ashore from a boat, part of which appears behind. On a rectangular plaque to his right is the inscription Christopher Columbus Oct. XII MCCCXCII. Above this plaque are the Pillars of Hercules and the inscription between them: Plus Ultra. Below at edge, in small letters, Augustus Saint Gaudens Fecit. Rx. Between two erect flaming torches a rectangular plaque on which is inscribed: Worlds Columbian Exposition in Commemoration of the Four Hundreth Anniversary of the Landing of Columbus MDCCCXCII - MDCCCXCIII. The last line of the plaque is inscribed: To Peace Dale Manufacturing Co. Below the plaque, the Santa Maria. In exergue: C.F.Barber Fecit.
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: MCCCCXCII...".
label: Description
content: ATHMCollection: #: 1979.51, From Peace Dale Mfg Co, Stevens Mills.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
label: artist
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: 2017.0232.09
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.09
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze, dark brown glaze (overall material)