Object Details
- Lovett, George Hampden
- Description
- Bronze medal won by Jane Loucks in a daguerreotype case that is 3 7/8” x 3 ½”. Obverse side: AMERICAN INSTITUTE / G. H. Lovett, N.Y.
- NEW YORK. Reverse side: AWARDED / TO Miss Jane Loucks,
- For the best / Worsted Embroidery, / 1856.
- Jane Elizabeth Loucks was born in 1835 to John and Desdemonia Marsh Loucks in Sharon, New York. She married Joseph Warren Hastings on February 16, 1871, in Manhattan. They moved to Illinois and had one daughter, Dena. See her wining piece, Mary Queen of Scots.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Crystal Palmer
- ID Number
- TE.T11106
- catalog number
- T11106
- accession number
- 238291
- Object Name
- medal
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Embroidered Pictures
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_649034
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-8187-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
