Political, Exposition, and Ceremonial Ribbons
Date1850-1900
MediumSilk ribbons in frame
DimensionsFrame (height x width): 30 1/2 × 24 1/2in. (77.5 × 62.2cm)
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of John K. Rudd
Object number1996.32.2
DescriptionCollage of 40 ribbons, many of them from the 1880s. They include two Wide Awakes ribbons, several reunions of regiments that served in the Civil War, the 1881 Cotton Expo (held in Atlanta, GA), and several political ribbons (two for the 1888 Republican National Convention in Chicago, one for William Henry Harrison, and one for Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton).
Status
Not on view
Lieutenant William Augustus Wetmore
1887-1895
