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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2002.196
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative Medal. Seal of Lancaster City on one side; "J. P. McCaskey - Mayor - Fifty Years a Teacher - 1908" on reverse.
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
People
McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Metal
Diameter (in)
1
Object ID
2002.196
Accession Number
2002.196
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
1975.014.1
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative Medal. Seal of Lancaster City on one side; "J. P. McCaskey - Mayor - Fifty Years a Teacher - 1908" on reverse.
McCaskey quit teaching boys in Lancaster City when Lancastrians elected him mayor in 1906.
When he ran for re-election in 1908, McCaskey paid the Philadelphia Mint to make 6,000 campaign medals in bronze. He handed them out around town.
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
People
McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Mayors
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Metal
Diameter (in)
1
Condition
Good
Object ID
1975.014.1
Accession Number
1975.014
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
1975.014.7
Date Range
1909
Collection
History Collection
Description
Fulton National Bank ; Robert Fulton, 1809-1909, Claremont on reverse.
Date Range
1909
Year Range From
1909
Year Range To
1909
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
People
Fulton, Robert
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
banks
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Metal
Diameter (in)
1
Condition
Good
Object ID
1975.014.7
Accession Number
1975.014
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Collection
History Collection: Groups & Organizations
Object ID
2003.143
Collection
History Collection: Groups & Organizations
Description
Commemorative medal,
Face: decorated with image of red and blue, "The Penna Division L.A.W."
Reverse: maker's mark on reverse, "O'Hara Dial Co., Waltham, Mass."
Face screws into base.
League of American Wheelmen, for bicycle riders
Year Range From
1890
Year Range To
1926
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Bronze
Depth (in)
0.125
Diameter (in)
0.625
Condition
Good
Object ID
2003.143
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2003.142
Date Range
1909
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Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative medal, in leather covered case with velvet interior
Face: image of 3 women, one holding a boat in her lap, cityscape in background, 2 columns frame a bust of Robert Fulton. "Robert Fulton 1765 - 1815" and "First use of steam in navigation on the Hudson River 1807"
Reverse: image of 7 men on board a boat "Discovery of Hudson River by Henry Hudson, A.D. MDCIX, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Comm., The American Numismatic Society"
Date Range
1909
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 19
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Silver
Depth (in)
4
Diameter (in)
0.625
Condition
Good
Object ID
2003.142
Images
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
1998.998
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative medal, in leather covered case with velvet interior
Commemorative Medal
Face: bust of J. P. McCaskey, "J.P. McCaskey, Mayor, Fifty Years a Teacher, 1908"
Reverse: image of seal of Lancaster
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
People
McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Bronze
Depth (in)
2.325
Diameter (in)
0.625
Condition
Good
Object ID
1998.998
Accession Number
1998.998
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2003.105
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative Medal
Face: bust of J. P. McCaskey, "J.P. McCaskey, Mayor, Fifty Years a Teacher, 1908"
Reverse: image of seal of Lancaster
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Bronze
Depth (in)
1.25
Diameter (in)
0.125
Condition
Good
Object ID
2003.105
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2003.106
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative Medal
Face: bust of J. P. McCaskey, "J.P. McCaskey, Mayor, Fifty Years a Teacher, 1908"
Reverse: image of seal of Lancaster
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Bronze
Depth (in)
1.25
Diameter (in)
0.125
Condition
Good
Object ID
2003.106
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Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2003.107
Date Range
1908
Collection
History Collection
Description
Commemorative Medal
Face: bust of J. P. McCaskey, "J.P. McCaskey, Mayor, Fifty Years a Teacher, 1908"
Reverse: image of seal of Lancaster
Date Range
1908
Year Range From
1908
Year Range To
1908
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Bronze
Depth (in)
1.25
Diameter (in)
0.125
Condition
Good
Object ID
2003.107
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Collection
History Collection: Groups & Organizations
Object ID
1909.004
Date Range
1909
Collection
History Collection: Groups & Organizations
Description
Commemorative Medal
Face: "With Malice Toward None, With Charity for All / 1809, 1909"
Reverse: "This Medal was Struck for the Grand Army of the Republic in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln"
Provenance
Gift is noted in minutes of Journal, 7 Dec. 1909.
Date Range
1909
Year Range From
1909
Year Range To
1909
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 20
People
Lincoln, Abraham
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Grand Army of the Republic
Object Name
Medal, Commemorative
Material
Metal, Bronze
Depth (in)
0.25
Diameter (in)
3
Condition
Good
Object ID
1909.004
Accession Number
1909.004
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