Object Record
Metadata
Object Name |
Badge |
Catalog Number |
1935.068.00024 |
Date |
1932 (?) |
Description |
A 5 part commemorative badge. On the top is a crested ornate rectangular bronze bar-pin with a scene of a building in yellow-black print with a celluliod cover with scrolls on the top and bottom that read: "Confederate Memorial Institute Richmond, Va." in yellow-black print with a celluliod cover. It is followed by a 2 rectangular bar ladder chain with the words "BRIGADE COMMANDER" on the first bar and "OKLAHOMA" on the second bar. Connected to the top bar-pin is a red & white striped rectangular satin fish tail ribbon that hangs down past the medal. Connected to the "OKLAHOMA" bar is a pentagonal shaped bronze medal with a depiction of Robert E. Lee standing and surrounded by the words "37th ANNUAL CONVENTION" and "S.C.V." at the bottom . |
Owned |
Walter L. Hopkins |
Made |
Green Duck Company, Chicago, Illinois |
Provenance |
A Sons of Confederate Veterans commemorative badge commemorating the 37th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in 1931. |
People |
Hopkins, Walter L. |
Search Terms |
Sons of Confederate Veterans SCV S.C.V. |
Subjects |
reunions veterans |