UNT Libraries: Rare Book & Texana Collections: Highlights of Specific Items in the Collections: 1950 Sons of the American Revolution Congress Delegate's Badge

Highlights of specific items in the collections:

National Society Sons of the American Revolution
Delegate's Badge for the 1950 "Diamond Jubilee" Congress of the Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Atlantic City, N. J.: Sons of the American Revolution, 1950.
Manufactured by Whitehead-Hoag, Newark, N.J.
TXSSAR Badges National 1950

1950 Delegate's badge, National Congress, Sons of the American Revolution

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, delegates and their families attending the Annual Congresses of the Sons of the American Revolution would receive ornate badges to wear as name-badges, and as souvenirs of the Congress.

Detail of 1950 Delegate's Badge.

This particular example, from the 1950 "Diamond Jubilee" Congress, held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, features an artificial "diamond" at the top of the pendant.

This badge was collected by Mr. Clovis H. Brakebill, a former President General of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Brakebill gave it to Dr. James J. Johnson, who deposited it in the TXSSAR Archives in March 2004.