Fire Badge "State Firemen's Convention, Wilkes-Barre, PA"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1897
name: label: maker
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: This souvenir badge from the 1897 Pennsylvania State Firemen’s Convention in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was manufactured by the Whitehead & Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey. The badge consists of a silver pin hanging from a blue ribbon. Silver stitching on the ribbon reads “SOUVENIR.” Hanging from the ribbon is a circular medal featuring a photograph of George J. Stegmaier, Chief of the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department on one side, with the text “CHIEF OF WILKES BARRE FIRE DEPT” at the top of the badge. The other side of the badge has a painted image of a fireman rescuing a baby from a burning building with the text “STATE FIREMEN’S CONVENTION OCT. 4-9/WILKES-BARRE, PA., 1897.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Fire Fighting and Law Enforcement
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content: Work
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0233.1393
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.1393
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge, fireman's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 4.445 cm