Medal. Women's Committee of the Centennial Exhibition, 1876
date: label: Date made
content: 1876
name: label: manufacturer
content: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
notes: label: Description
content: Medal. Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia Mint. "ART IS THE HANDMAID OF HUMAN GOOD LOWELL, 1876..." One of 200 medals struck for members of the Women’s Committee of the Centennial Exhibition. . Medal depicting a woman spinning with a drop spindle with a legend around. The other side has a monogram of the initials W.A.C. with a legend around. The medal was struck by the Philadelphia Mint. A very important example of a limited edition celebrating women’s involvement in the Centennial fair.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection - #: 1981.48.2; Gift of Shirley Howe
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: manufacturer
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: related event
content: Centennial Exposition
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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: 2017.0232.15
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.15
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)