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• Title: Columbia gives to her sons the accolade of the new chivalry of humanity Anna Cecelia [i.e., Cecilia] Foldese [i.e., Foldesi], Army Nurse Corps served the honor in the World War and died in the service of her country / designed by E.H. Blashfield, 1919.
• Creator(s): Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, artist
• Date Created/Published: 1919.
• Medium: 1 print : photogravure, chine collé ; sheet 55.3 x 45.3 cm.
• Summary: Certificate shows Columbia holding a proclamation above her head in one hand while touching a sword to the shoulder of a World War I doughboy who kneels at her feet with the other hand. A large sized US flag flies behind her along with the faces of other soldiers. Certificate was intended for, and inscribed with her name, Anna Cecilia Foldesi (1890-1918) who served as a Red Cross nurse in World War I.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-40020 (digital file from original print)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2013:159 [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Edwin Blashfield's Certificate for a Red Cross Nurse. Though Blashfield's design shows Columbia "knighting" a kneeling doughboy, this certificate honors the service of Red Cross nurse Anna Cecilia Foldesi. Shortly after arriving at Iowa's Camp Dodge, Foldesi (name misspelled as Foldese on the certificate) died of influenza and pneumonia on November 8th, days before the war ended. Millions more died from the wartime influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 than from enemy weapons.
  • Title from item.
  • Inscribed in ink on the certificate: Anna Cecelia Foldese, Army Nurse Corps.
  • Corrections to spelling of Anna Cecilia Foldesi's name provided by her family.
  • Signature on lower right corner: Woodrow Wilson.
  • Gift; Jean Burkhardt and the families of Barbara Goodman and Rose Ann (Converse) Poyzer; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:159).
  • Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2016 - May 2017.
• Subjects:
  • Foldesi, Anna Cecilia,--1890-1918.
  • Columbia (Symbolic character)
  • World War I, 1914-1918,--Military personnel.
• Format:
  • Certificates--1910-1920.
  • Chine collé prints--1910-1920.
  • Photogravures--1910-1920.
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-40020 (digital file from original print)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2013:159 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : photogravure, chine collé ; sheet 55.3 x 45.3 cm.

• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2013:159 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : photogravure, chine collé ; sheet 55.3 x 45.3 cm.
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html

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