Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1855
label: date made
content: 1853
name: label: maker
content: Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Fitz (1808-1863), the first successful commercial telescope maker in the United States, won this bronze medal at the New York Crystal Palace of 1853. The obverse has a goddess, a winged god, another woman, “J. A. OERTEL DEL” and “C. C. WRIGHT SC.” The reverse has “EXHIBITION / OF THE / INDUSTRY / OF ALL NATIONS / NEW-YORK / 1853." Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (1823-1909) was a German-American clergyman and artist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Exhibitions
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315813
label: accession number
content: 220983
label: catalog number
content: 315813
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal