Jane Loucks' Medal
name: label: maker
content: Lovett, George Hampden
notes: label: Description
content: Bronze medal won by Jane Loucks in a daguerreotype case that is 3 7/8” x 3 ½”. Obverse side: AMERICAN INSTITUTE / G. H. Lovett, N.Y.
label: Description
content: NEW YORK. Reverse side: AWARDED / TO <i> Miss Jane Loucks,
label: Description
content: For the best / Worsted Embroidery, / 1856.</i>
label: Description
content: Jane Elizabeth Loucks was born in 1835 to John and Desdemonia Marsh Loucks in Sharon, New York. She married Joseph Warren Hastings on February 16, 1871, in Manhattan. They moved to Illinois and had one daughter, Dena. See her wining piece, <i>Mary Queen of Scots.</i>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Embroidered Pictures
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Crystal Palmer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11106
label: catalog number
content: T11106
label: accession number
content: 238291
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm