Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hall of Fame Award: Eben N. Horsford (with alumni magazine, induction programs, emails), 2001 September 21

Series VII. Awards, medals, plaques, and memorials (1875-2001) consists of cups won at college competitions, both athletic and academic, and plaques and a vase in memory of Wellesley College affiliated individuals (Mary Whiton Calkins, Carla Wenckebach, and Katharine Lee Bates). Includes medals from various schools (Yale University, Hunter College, University of Brussels, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Athens University), organizations (the Massachusetts Horticultural Society), and commemorations (the centennial of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the centennial of the Battle of Lexington, the centennial of the Town of Wellesley). Of note is the Presidential Medal of Freedom won by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1993 to honor her conservation of the Everglades, and a medal issued by the German government following the sinking of the British RMS Lusitania (1915).