Item consists of a hand-painted leather badge with braided metal tassels. Text Reads WE MOURN / OUR LOSS / LIVE OAK / 44 / W.H.Y.. The organization behind the Live Oak/ W.H.Y. reference has not been identified. Item donor Susan H. Douglas states this as a Ulysses S. Grant memorial item she displayed it with Grant memorial item 2214.RB0113. Use of leather may reference Grant's early career as a tanner.
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Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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