Museum object · Awards, Medals, and Insignia
Souvenir medal commemorating World War I
ca. 1918
United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A World War I era bronze circular souvenir medal attached to a vertically striped red, white and blue ribbon. The front of the medal contains imagery of a bald eagle with its wings outstreched at the top with sunrays filling the background and profile portrait of a soldier in uniform holding a bayonnet on the right side with the words [OUR COLORED TROOPS] written inside of an unfurled banner on the left side. The back of the medal contains the following message: [WORLD WAR BEGAN / AUGUST 1, 1914 / US entered APRIL 6, 1917 / WAR ENDED NOV. 11, 1918] with two crossed American flags below. Underneath the two crossed flags is engraved [PAT. APPL'D FOR].
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Catalog reference: 2011.155.222
