Medal for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America: Museum Object and Cultural History
Medal for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America: Date: ca. 1910. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American, founded 1843.
The object in the museum catalogue
A Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America medal. The medal has a decorative suspension brooch attached to the medal. The medal has a sun with a face at top. Below the sun is a shepherd’s crook crossed with torch. A snake is wrapped around the torch. Below the torch and shepherd’s crook is a chain with three links.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1910
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American, founded 1843
- Type: medals
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 4 3/4 × 1 15/16 × 3/8 in. (12 × 5 × 1 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Fraternal organizations
- Topic: Men
- Object number: 2013.180.2.14
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Michael P. Musick in memory of Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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