Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:First World War pins.
  
• Publication:Great Britain, circa 1914-circa 1918.
  
• Physical Description:91 pins ; 6 x 6 cm, or smaller
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: D638 .P56 Flat A
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
    

   
• Summary:Collections of 91 pins, most associated with charities or patriotic movements in Great Britain during the First World War. Examples include: British & Foreign Sailors' Society; Salvation Army Ambulance Unit; R.S.P.C.A. War Fund; The Red Cross of the Sea, Royal National Life Boat Inst.; Crutch Day; Queen Alexandra's Field Force Fund; The Sailor's Day, 1916; Church Army Hut War Fund; Help Russia; Clara Butt's Joan of Arc Day; Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
  Charities--Great Britain.
  
• Genre/Form:Pins (jewelry)
  Lapel pins.