Nightingale medal [realia] / designed by the Countess Feodora Gleichen, 1916

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Nightingale medal [realia] / designed by the Countess Feodora Gleichen, 1916

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84459882

1 medal ; cm

Columbia University in the City of New York, Teacher's College

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Teacher's College

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