Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Insignia
Object name
Insignia
Date
1898
Medium
Metal
Dimensions
2 1/4 x 2 1/8 x 1/4 in.
Description
A silver and steel colored metal military insignia or patriotic stickpin in the shape of a detailed rifle hanging from a copper and gray enamel gun cartridge shell engraved "To Free/ Cuba", a reference to the Cuban-Spanish-American War of 1898.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.4423
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
