Rare Book and Texana Collections

Highlights of specific items in the collections:

Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution
Medal for the Annual banquet, New Haven, Feb 22nd 1898
New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1898.
TXSSAR Other Connecticut Flag Day 1891

Silvered pewter (?) medal formed as a Maltese cross commemorating the 1898 Annual Banquet of the Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution. 

The face of the medal features a representation of "The Minuteman", gun at ready to defend his country, plow at rest behind.

The reverse is plain, with just the symbol of the maker, The George H. Ford Company.

Deposited with the Rare Book & Texana Collections as part of the
TXSSAR Archives, August 2004.

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This page last updated on Wednesday, August 11, 2004