This dark blue wool felt square sham features “GETTYSBURG ACADEMY” in applied orange felt lettering. Decorative fringe surrounds edges. Measures 19 ¾” high x 19 ¾” wide. Some light surface dirt is present. Sham is in great condition with no holes.

Gettysburg Academy (also known as the Classical Preparatory School and the Gettysburg Gymnasium) was an antebellum boys' boarding school for which the vernacular architecture schoolhouse (now "Reuning Hall") was the "first home" of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and Gettysburg College.

When the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg began, the Reuning House was being used by Rebecca Eyster's Young Ladies Seminary, which acted as an American Civil War hospital for casualties during the battle.

This is a vintage Gettysburg College item.  [sl]

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