Leather multi-compartment Wallet. Some remnants of a red printed logo on interior flap. Contained the Civil War discharge papers of William Sweigart, Private, 195th Regiment.
Seal press, George Shiffler Council, No. 177, O of IA, Order of Independent Americans. Part of the Nativists' Movement. Anti-tax and Anti-immigration.
George Shiffler, a young Nativist, was fatally shot at the Nativist Riots of 1844 in Philadelphia during which mobs attacked Irish-American and Roman Catholic homes and businesses.
