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Medal
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
Sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
(1848-1907)
Sculptor
Charles Edward Barber
(1840-1917)
SignatureObverse: Augustus Saint-Gaudens Fecit; reverse: C. E. Barber Fecit
InscriptionsObverse: CHRISTOPHER COLVMBVS OCT. XII MCCCCXCII PLVS VLTRA; reverse: WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDING OF COLUMBUS MDCCCXCII - MDCCCXCIII TO WILLIAM NOTMAN AND SONS
Date
1893
DimensionsDiameter: 7.5 cm
Origin
Waterbury, Connecticut
Object NumberM967.162.2.1-2
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of James Geoffrey Notman
Status
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Silver Medal Awarded to Alexander Henderson, Exposition Universelle Internationale
Jules Clément Chaplain
1878
M976.192.1
Agricultural Society of New South Wales, Australia
Hardy Brothers London & Sydney
1877
M967.162.6
Medal presented to Notman Studio at the Exhibition of Canadian Industry, Montreal
Joseph Shepherd Wyon
1860
M967.162.9
Anne Molson Gold Medal for Mathematics Science & Physics 1898, McGill University.
Joseph Shepherd Wyon
1898
M992.103.1-2
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