Medal
notes: label: Description
content: William Henry Welch (1850-1934) was a physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, and dean of The Johns Hopkins Medical School. In the fall of 1910, shortly after Dr. Welch was elected president of the American Medical Association, some of his friends and students gathered to discuss how they might “demonstrate publicly their admiration and affection for their master and friend.” The upshot of the discussion was that the artist, Victor David Brenner (1871-1924), be requested to design a medallion of Dr. Welch, and that bronze reproductions be made available to those who wished to subscribe for them. This is one of those reproductions. The obverse has a portrait bust to right, ‘WILLIAM H. WELCH” at the bottom, and “V. D. Brenner, Sc.” in the upper right. The reverse has a rose and “FROM HIS FRIENDS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>In Honor of William H. Welch</i> (Baltimore, 1910).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.608
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Other Terms
content: Medal; Commemorative & Association Items
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.7 cm x 5.7 cm x .4 cm; 3 1/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/16 in