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Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Switzerland, founded 1911, endowment $130,000

MLA citation style
Carnegie Rescuers Foundation,. Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund For Switzerland, Founded 1911, Endowment $130,000. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department, 1911.
APA citation style
Carnegie Rescuers Foundation,. (1911). Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Switzerland, founded 1911, endowment $130,000. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_663
Chicago citation style
Carnegie Rescuers Foundation,. “Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund For Switzerland, Founded 1911, Endowment $130,000”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, 1911. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_663.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Switzerland, founded 1911, endowment $130,000

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Pictorial works.
Carnegie Rescuers Foundation--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--United States--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Pictorial works.
Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Endowments--Switzerland--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Medals--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Switzerland--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Switzerland--Medals--Pictorial works.
Courage--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Medals--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Medals--Pictorial works.
Medals--Switzerland--Pictorial works.
Switzerland--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

Two photographs of a medal, showing both sides of the medal issued by the Carnegie Hero Fund for Switzerland (Carnegie Rescuers Foundation). The front side of the medal contains the name, Andrew Carnegie and includes a figure of a woman carrying a horn of plenty upside down with flowers falling out of it. The name Hans Frei is located on the left side of the medal. The reverse side shows two figures, a man and a woman, the man is rescuing the woman from the water and includes the inscription: "Virtvti de vitis hvmanis servandis optime meritae." On cardboard mount: 26 x 35 cm

Creator

Carnegie Rescuers Foundation

Publisher

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department

Date

1911

Type

Image

Identifier

CA-458
143433609

Language

English
Latin

Relation

Andrew Carnegie Benefactions Collection

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For further information about the collection or a specific item please visit the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries website at https://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/portal/help.jsp

Contributing Institution

Carnegie Mellon University

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.