Medals: between art, recognition, and distinction

Colonialism, defense of sovereignty, wars of conquest against native peoples, freedom battles, and other contributions to society are documented in medals. Learn these markings for putting a social message on clothes.

Medals: between art, recognition, and distinction
Lithograph with 19 medals awarded by the Secretary of War and Navy, 1899. AGN, Maps, Plans, and Illustrations, record 4975. From AGN, Private Archives, Persons, Francisco Bulnes, box 24, exp. 6, f. 24.