Searching out the soul behind the badge.

[catfish]

Great Info.

 

[Cory]

My head is still spinning! Super cool story guys, thanks for sharing [emoji1] [emoji106]

 

[Andrew Gorman]

A totally cool thread!

 

[saladshooter]

I dig it! Way to keep me reading! I'm easily deterred by that many words..

Chad

 

[aasmitty757]

Thank you Marty for a fantastic article and interesting history lesson!

 

[Rust_Trader]

This is pretty cool, great info.



Here she is on all of these souvenirs.

 

[island schwinn]

wow,I haven't read that much in quite some time,as reading gives me a headache.even so,it was worth every bit of pain to read the fantastic story.I appreciate all the effort involved in this history lesson.

 

[barneyguey]

View attachment 425261 View attachment 425262 Here's the headbadge that started this quest and here is the original drawing by Charles Holloway entered for the competition to find a mascot for the Chicago/Columbian Exposition in 1893.
I think you can see where the imagery for the badge came from.
I always wondered why her arm looked broken and her breasts looked funny on the badge.
Or why she had a bird on her head, and what was she willing to do?
Well, unbeknownst to me, she was a Goddess wearing a breast plate with a hatchet in her hand, with the will to rise up like the Phoenix on her head from the ashes of the great fire that had destroyed her city some twenty years before.

Thanks, to Kim Smith aka aasmitty
I now have some explaination to the soul behind the badge.
Great work, my friend!

Cool! Barry

 

[WES PINCHOT]

AWESOME!

 

[catfish]