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Collection Type

  • Jewelry

Date

1929

GUSN

GUSN-194599

Description

A small badge with a solid red ribbon backing. There is a name pate with an ivy scroll border and white paper with black ink. Hanging from the name plate is a aged bronze circular medal with a smaller round red circle that has the Harvard seal on it. On the back is a manufacturerer label, that sticks to the ribbon.

Details

Descriptive Terms

badges
metal
ribbon (material)
Badge

Inscription

"S.W.PHILLIPS '95 / Salem, Mass." (Typed in black ink on white paper)
"ASSOCIATED HARVARD CLUBS / CINCINNATI MAY 1929 / 3ST ANNUAL / MEETING / ACADEMIAE / HARVARDIANAE / IN / NOV / ANG / SIGILLVM / CHRISTO / ET / ECCLESIAE / VE / RI / TAS" (Stamped on the medal)
"THIS BADGE MANUFACTURED BY / THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. / MAKERS OF / BADGES, BUTTONS, BANNERS, SIGNS / AND ADVERTISING NOVELTIES / Main Office and Factory, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY / THE FOLLOWING UNIONS ARE REPRESENTED IN OUR PLANT / International Typographical Union no. 103, Bookbinders' / No.62, Printing Pressmen's No. 31, Feeders's and As- / sitant Pressmen's No.19, Litho Press / men's, Transferers' Engravers', Artists' / Stone and Plate Preparers', Press / feeders and Apprentices' No.1, Carpenters' and Joiners' No. / 120." (Printed sticker tag, white paper and black ink)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

People and Organizations

Harvard University

Maker

The Whitehead & Hoag Co. (Manufacturer)

Location of Origin

Newark, New Jersey

Dimensions

1 5/8 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.2744

Places

New Jersey (United States)
Newark (Essex county, New Jersey)

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