Kid's Activities: Create your own symbol!
Medal
1782
Designed by Augustin Dupré
Courtesy The American Numismatic Society, New York
This medal features Lady Liberty with the traditional French pileus cap symbolizing freedom from slavery. If you had to design your own medal using images that remind you of liberty and freedom, what would you choose and why
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Naval Jack Flag
Flown during Operation Iraqi Freedom by the USS
Nashville
Courtesy United States Navy
This flag, flown from the bow of a ship, uses the traditional icon of the snake to warn others not to tread on the liberty of the men and women under its protection. The snake on this flag is a venomous defender. If you were to create your own flag of protection, what symbols would you use to warn those who might threaten your freedom?
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Organized by the Virginia Historical
Society with additional support from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter
Foundation and the
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Changing Exhibitions Fund, American. Support
in St. Louis is provided by The Stanley and Lucy Lopata Foundation
This exhibition has been made possible in part
by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Great Ideas Brought to Life.
