Medal, "SOUTH CAROLINA INTERSTATE AND WEST INDIAN EXPOSITION / CHARLESTON, S.C. / 1901-2 / AWARDED TO PEACE DALE MFG. CO. GORHAM CO.". A bronze medal with a seated Liberty holding a ship in crook of her left arm and a staff or mace in her right hand; seated on a throne; cornucopiae to right and left at bottom; buildings right and left of throne; 2 palm trees; the words Peace Dale etc. are cast in. Slightly thicker in the middle.
Representative of the American textile industry’s involvement in a range of community and national fairs, expositions, and commemorations from the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 through the Century of Progress exposition (Chicago centenary) in 1933.
ATHM Collection - #: 1979.64.1-2; From Peace Dale Mfg/Stevens Mills