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Russian cross presented to Katherine Olmsted while on route to Romania
Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. The commission passed…
Russian Freedom medal presented to Katherine Olmsted by Russian Premier Alexander Kerensky
Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. The commission passed…
Coronation Medal of Ferdinand I of Romania, presented to Katherine Olmsted by Queen Marie
As the second Director of the Nursing Bureau of the League of Red Cross Societies, Katherine Olmsted visited Romania to set up a local a nursing school and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards. Queen Marie presented…
Barbee Cross presented to Katherine Olmsted by Queen Marie of Romania
Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. Olmsted's public…
Alice Fitzgerald's Order of the Serbian Red Cross medal
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. Cross-shaped silver breast badge with red…
Alice Fitzgerald's Polish Red Cross Nursing Education medal
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This medal is for her work with the American…
Alice Fitzgerald's Merit Cross of the Hungarian Red Cross
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This Hungarian Breast badge is made of…
Alice Fitzgerald's Italian Red Cross Medal
Medal awarded to Alice Fitzgerald for her work during World War I to open a Hospital in Rimini, Italy for Venetian refugees. Circular medal with a large cross on the front and the image of a crowned eagle on the back; suspended from a white ribbon…
Alice Fitzgerald's British Royal Red Cross medal, Second Class
Maltese cross made of metal with red enamel arms and a circle in the center bearing the profile of King George V on the front; suspended from a dark blue ribbon with crimson edge stripes. Inscriptions Back: “Faith,” “Hope,” “Charity,” and “1883” each…
