Calendar Medal Showing Presidential Candidates
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
notes: label: Description
content: This is a small, simple perpetual calender with the days of the month on an outer rim numbered from 1 to 31 and the days of the week on a disc that rotates inside this. The inner circle holds portraits of two different men, one on each side. A small suspension ring attached to the rim allowed attachment to a watch chain or pendant.
label: Description
content: It seems likely that this is a bit of campaign ephemera from the late nineteenth century United States. The bearded figure shown might be James G. Blaine and the one with a mustache alone John A. Logan. Blaine ran for president as a Republican in 1884, with Logan running as his vice-president. The bid was unsuccessful.
label: Description
content: The object came to the Smithsonian from the collection of Henry Russell Wray. Acquired in about 1960.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Images of Blaine and Logan at the time of the campaign appear in a website with address: https://archive.org/details/portraitsofrepub00chic. See also campaign ephemera from the Cornell University Library shown at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/4360015764/.
label: Description
content: A description of what appears to be another example of this object is given at: https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/custom/presidential83.pdf, p. 29-30. All the websites were accessed January 24, 2018.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Calendar
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316917
label: catalog number
content: 316917
label: accession number
content: 228694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar medal
label: Object Name
content: calendar token
label: Object Name
content: calendar coin
label: Object Name
content: calendar disc
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 2.8 cm x 3 cm x 2.8 cm; 5/32 in x 1 3/32 in x 1 3/16 in x 1 3/32 in