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Michigan Commandery Dinner Menu
| Front cover and menu page for a dinner of the "Loyal Legion. Michigan Commandery with Saginaw Valley Companions at Bancroft House," with the badge of the organization suspended from a tri-colored red, white, and blue ribbon. The seal, a golden eagle with outstretched wings against a red background, is encircled with the legend, "Lex regit, arma tuentur" (Law reigns, arms uphold) on a blue and gold Maltese cross. The menu page is adorned with a draped flag of the United States interlaced with the letters of "Menu". |
| Image ID: | 103988 |
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| Creation Date: | before 12 03 1891 |
| Creator Name: | Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| City: | Saginaw |
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| State: | Michigan |
| Collection Name: | Menu collection, 1846-2014 |
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| Original Format Type: | manuscript |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3481.1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.25 x 6.75 inches |
| The menu is enclosed in a Bailey Banks & Biddle envelope that is marked in pencil, "G.A.R. Souvenirs". The Loyal Legion of the United States includes individual state commanderies, and is a veterans organization for Union officers of the Civil War and their descendants. |
| Birds |
| Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Fraternal organizations |
| Food service |
| Ephemera |
| Dinners and dining |
| Medals |
| Reunions |
| Officers |
| Veterans |
| Flags |
| Hotels |
| Insignia |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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