Ribbon badge for 1st Minnesota Gettysburg reunion

Titles: Ribbon badge for 1st Minnesota Gettysburg reunion (Supplied title)

Description: Ribbon commemorates a reunion of the 1st Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1897. Made of blue silk with a gold colored pin bar at the top and a raised enamel circle featuring an image of the 1st Minnesota Gettysburg monument in the center. Ribbon reads, "SURVIVORS OF / 1ST MINN. VOL. INFTY / GETTYSBURG, PA. / JULY 2ND, / 1863-1897" in gold printing. A card on the back reads, "The Whitehead & Hoag Co. / Ribbon, Metal and Celluloid / Badges, / Lapel Buttons, / Flags and Banners / Newark, N.J."

Dates

• Exactly 1897 (Creation)

Creation

• used by: Hill, James J. (James Jerome)
• used by: United States, Army, Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864)
• made by: Whitehead & Hoag Co.

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 2009.29.12

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the James J. Hill Reference Library

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 6 inches length
• 2 inches width

Subjects

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