Correspondence and speech on Huey Long satirical medal, 1933

Summary

Abstract:
Letters and other materials relating to the presentation to the ANS of a satirical medal to honor an unknown attacker of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana.
Extent:
1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Correspondence and speech on Huey Long satirical medal, 1933, Archives, American Numismatic Society

Background

Scope and content:

Three letters between Owen P. White and Edward T. Newell, clippings, and the text of a speech relating to the presentation to the ANS of a satirical medal to honor an unknown attacker of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana.

Biographical / historical:

In 1933, an unknown assailant attacked Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, known as “Kingfish,” in the washroom of the Sands Point Bath Club on Long Island. The novelist Owen P. White jokingly suggested that the attacker should be given a gold medal, and soon money had been raised to actually produce one, which would be designed by George De Zayas. Though White believed “no dignified museum would be frivolous enough to accept it,” the American Numismatic Society’s president, Edward T. Newell, was happy to have it in the collections, which already housed numerous satirical medals.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish or reproduce must be secured from the American Numismatic Society.

Preferred citation:

Correspondence and speech on Huey Long satirical medal, 1933, Archives, American Numismatic Society

Location of this collection:
75 Varick Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10013, United States
Contact:
archives@numismatics.org