Souvenir medal commemorating World War I

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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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