Minneapolis Industrial Exposition Owney tag
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Object Details
- Honoree
- Owney, American, c. 1888 - 1897
- Description
- Owney received this souvenir token from supporters of the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition. The exposition ran for six weeks in 1886 (two years before Owney’s journeys began) and was located in a large, six-story structure that was built at the cost of one-third of a million dollars.
- 1888-1897
- Object number
- 0.052985.371
- Type
- Seals, Symbols & Signage
- Medium
- metal
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (3.81 × 3.81 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Record ID
- npm_0.052985.371
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8906bac4d-680c-4aaa-bab4-fbba15b1918e
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