Longshoremen's Protective Union Benevolent Association badge
Allied Printingbetween 1890 and 1920
The Historic New Orleans Collection
New Orleans, United States
Ribbon badge made for a memorial of a member of the Longshoremen's Protective Union Benevolent Association of New Orleans. The ribbon is reversible, the obverse is black and the reverse is dark blue, with similar inscription on both sides. The badge features an image of a laurel wreath around the inscription "In Memoriam" and has gold trim and accents. The top of the badge has a gold toned pin with an image of two hands shaking and a filigree motif. Attached to that pin by metal chains is a hanging gold toned pin which has a eagle holding arrows and an American flag over a laurel wreath, surrounding an image of a steamship. The bottom of the badge has gold metallic fringe.
- Title: Longshoremen's Protective Union Benevolent Association badge
- Creator: Allied Printing
- Date Created: between 1890 and 1920
- Location Created: New Orleans, LA
- Physical Dimensions: 8 1/4" x 2 1/4" x 1/2"
- Type: commemoratives
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by The Historic New Orleans Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.
- Medium: cloth; metal; paper (fiber product); ink
- Art Form: Textiles; Personal Accessories
- Support: Printed in color on paper and cloth, metal and coiled wire
- Original Title: Longshoremen's Protective Union Benevolent Association badge
- Credit Line: The Historic New Orleans Collection
- Accession Number: 1978.143
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