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Title
Katherine Olmsted's Italian Red Cross Medal of Merit for Propaganda
Alternative Title
Medaglia dei Benemeriti per la Propaganda
Description
As the second Director of the Nursing Bureau of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Katherine Olmsted continued Alice Fitzgerald's work of organizing local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Norway, Italy, Estonia, and Latvia. This Italian medal is a circular silver medal with bas-relief of a Red Cross nurse holding a steaming bowl with a Greek cross in the background on the front; reverse features a Greek cross at the top, raised inscription in the middle, and engraved name at the bottom; suspended from a silver ring for attaching to a ribbon (now missing). Inscription Back: "CROCE ROSSA/ITALIANA" in raised lettering, "M. OLMSTED" engraved.
Creator
Tailetti, P.
Is Part Of
Format
Diameter: 1 1/8 in
Identifier
Artifact 1008A