Public History & Philly

        Step 1: I examined the medal to see where I should target my repair efforts.   Step 2: I attempted to scrub the medal with some "Method" hand soap and my damp cloth.    Step 3: I realized that the removal of the marks on my medal would not happen this evening.       Step 4: I placed the medal back into the case I previously withdrew it from. Unfortunately, I could not for the life of me track down a care/maintenance guide dating from the early 20 th century to clean medallions. I was quite surprised by this because I found plenty of Great War forums and blog posts which dealt with cleaning a war medal, but I could not find a pamphlet from a specific publisher or company that produced a guide to the cleaning of medallions. On an interesting note: my search did lead me to coinage cleaning and then to the term numismatics: the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals). [1] ...

                              It honestly took me three attempts to craft a plane like the plane within the directions. To craft my paper airplane, or should I say paper airplanes, I used blank sheets of printer paper. The first step that I took was to fold the paper in half (I folded it so that the plane’s width would have a horizontal length over 9 inches). The next step that I took was to flip the paper over and to take a corner of my folded rectangle and to fold this corner over, making a small triangle over top of the original rectangle fold. Next, I took the corner opposite of the triangular fold and made the same triangle shape as I folded this corner over the rectangle base. To follow these steps, I started to structure the wings of my paper aircraft. My first step to make the wings was to fold the paper again in half so that I could only see one side of the plane. Then, I proceeded to take...

        This CAA Outdoor Track & Field medal (CAA standing for Colonial Athletic Association) is a medal gifted to collegiate athletes who compete in sports within universities on the East Coast of America. This specific medal, a medal given to the winner within CAA competitions, is of a gold tone with a reflective backside; one could see, with a very blurry reflection, the image of their own face or surroundings while looking at the backside of the medal. The frontside of the medal has the design of two circles: one circle is gold and a bit smaller than the surrounding circle, a navy-blue circle, which lies on the outside of the medal. Written overtop of the middle circle are the letters “CAA” which slightly move into the outer navy-blue circle. Near the top of the middle “A” are a few blemishes of a grayish color. The same grayish marks are apparent towards the bottom of the middle circle as well. On the top of the outer navy-blue circle, the words “Outdoo...