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Lynn Museum in Norfolk has a large collection of medieval badges that were collected in the 19th century by children, whom the local antiquarian would pay for their finds. It has been suggested that this is because medieval pilgrims believed that the badges would bring good luck if they were thrown into water, however that theory is now ...
A Richard Caister pilgrim badge. Richard Caister (mid-1300s – 4 April 1420) was an English priest and poet in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and was the confessor to the English mystic Margery Kempe. After his death in 1420 his burial place in Norwich became a pilgrimage site.
Location of Lynn in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for ...
Higgins Armory Museum - closed in 2014, collection will be absorbed into Worcester Art Museum [15] Hollywood House of Wax, Salem - no current information; Indian Motorcycle Museum, Springfield, [16] [17] Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, closed in 2001 as a public museum, now archive and research center, collections now reside at New Bedford ...
Pilgrim is a sociology professor and the founder of the Jim Crow Museum, which bills itself as the largest collection of racist memorabilia in the United States. "I can teach with objects what I ...
The G.A.R. Hall and Museum is a historic museum at 58 Andrew Street in Lynn, Massachusetts.. The four story Romanesque brick building was built in 1885 by contractor Frank G. Kelly [3] to the design of the Lynn firm Wheeler & Northend for the General Frederick W. Lander Post 5 of the Grand Army of the Republic, an American Civil War veterans organization.
One of Tom Dye’s favorites from his collection is a first-issue Akron badge from 1872. Dye’s current favorite in the collection is a first-issue Akron badge from 1872, which he bought online ...
Greek and Roman pilgrims to pagan shrines made collections of miniature images of gods and goddesses or their emblems, and Christian pilgrims later did the same. Usually medieval Christian pilgrim badges were metal pin badges - most famously the shell symbol showing the wearer had been to the shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.