Katherine Olmsted's Italian Red Cross Medal of Merit for Propaganda

Katherine Olmsted's Italian Red Cross Medal of Merit for Propaganda

Medaglia dei Benemeriti per la Propaganda

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.

Tailetti, P.

Diameter: 1 1/8 in

Artifact 1008A