Alice Freeman Palmer Commemorative Medal (from Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Medal Series)

The medal\u27s obverse design depicts a portrait of Alice Freeman Palmer from the waist up and holding a book. Palmer was an advocate of female education and founder of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, which later became the American Association of University Women. On the medal\u27s reverse, female figures are depicted in various roles. These figures include: a woman with a child on her lap, a woman playing a flute, a woman a girl holding books, and a female scientist working in a lab.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-coins-and-medals/1103/thumbnail.jp