Search using this query type:

Search only these record types:

Advanced Search (Items only)

Browse Items (59 total)

  • Tags: button

2021.88e.jpg
Raising funds pin used during WWII to aid Finland's conflict with Russia.

2021.91e.jpg
Leftist fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, including Finns from Maynard, who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of America.

Tags: , ,

2021.101e.jpg
One of Maynard's Finnish athletic clubs.

2021.126e.jpg
A participation ribbon celebrating Maynard's 50th Anniversary of being incorporated, 1871.

1999.2755ef.jpg
1908 Maynard High School class pin with the initials on back, MGT, Marion G. Townsend.

2021.127e.jpg
A participation lapel pin and ribbon celebrating the inauguration of the Maynard chapter of the Elks.

1999.1398.jpg
World War I buttons cut off military coats, shredded in the Shoddy Mill, Assabet Mills. They were found by Edmund Duggan.

1999.2815ed.jpg
1923 Maynard High School class pin with initials PM and XX on back. Likely owned by Pearl McAuslin , a member of the class of 1923.

2021.89e.jpg
A promotional pin for the Finnish Steamship Company.

2021.97e.jpg
Participation pin for one of the annual Finnish Summer Festivals.

2021.98e.jpg
Participation pin of the Joint Celebration, Rhode Island & Connecticut, of the 300th anniversary of Finnish people coming to America.

50th-committee-ribbon.jpg
Badge worn by Committee Members during the 50th Anniversary Celebration, dated April 19, 1921.

2021.94e.jpg
Pin promoting the War Saving Stamps sold during WW I to pay for the conflict.

2021.92e.jpg
Eastern Finnish Music Organization formed to encourage Finnish bands and choruses. Hugo Kajander was the promoter.

2021.93e.jpg
The league was formed after some Finns left the socialist party. Their first summer festival, 1940, was held in Fithburg.

50th-medal.jpg
A booklet describing the 50th Anniversary Souvenir Medal. Included is a 50th Anniversary Ribbon worn by Town Officials, dated April 19, 1921.

1999.1793e.jpg
Mike Lynch, a newcomer to local politics, defeated Richard T. White for the office in 1977.

1999.899e.jpg
The Army-Navy "E" Award was an honor presented to companies during World War II whose production facilities achieved "Excellence in Production" ("E") of war equipment. The employees received the pin.