Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Badge, Membership |
Catalog Number |
1951.21.3 |
Maker |
Whitehead & Hoag Co. |
Date |
1900 |
Material(s) |
Celluloid/Ink |
Dimensions |
D-0.5 Dia-2 inches |
Description |
This membership badge or pendant is a hollow round box. The front features a color illustration of a bouquet of roses with a red ribbon "Reunion / Louisville / 1900" is printed in red above the illustration. "Winnie Davis Rose" is stamped in green near the bottom of the pendant. The back of the pendant features a full-color illustration of Winnie Davis in profile and the words, "Daughter of the Confederacy" printed around her image. "The Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, N.J." is printed in black along the bottom edge of the pendant. |
Notes |
Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis (1864-1898) was the youngest daughter of the Confederate States of America's president, Jefferson Davis. She became an icon for Confederate veterans an an inspiration for the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were organized after the Civil War. It consists of women sixteen and up who can prove direct descent from men or women who served the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War. |
Collection |
Mary Louise Patterson Collection |
Event |
Reunion for the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1900 |
People |
Davis, Varina "Winnie" Whitehead & Hoag Company United Daughters of the Confederacy |
Subjects |
Reunions Pendants (Jewelry) Organizations |
Search Terms |
Louisville (Ky.) Confederacy Daughters of the Confederacy United Daughters of the Confederacy Kentucky Reunions |
Physical Holder |
Kentucky Historical Society - KHS |