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Katherine Olmsted's Badge of the Serbian Red Cross

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Title

Katherine Olmsted's Badge of the Serbian Red Cross

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 Serbian medal is a red shield-shaped medal with a vertical white stripe down the center and a white circle with a red cross in it at the center of the shield. There is a gold colored wreath around the bottom and sides of the white circle and small shield with sun on the horizon and a lion and griffin on it, three stars above the small shield, and a lion and a griffin on either side of the small shield. The medal is fastened with a screw attached to the back of the medal and a round plate with a threaded hole in it and two small handles on it.

Creator

V. Gassners & J. Vilgins Riga

Format

Width: 1.25 in
Length: 2 in

Identifier

Artifact 1015A