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Key to the City Award
Specifications
Key to the City Award
Category
Military
Classification
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Personal Symbols - Achievement Symbols - Award
Object Origin
Date Manufactured:
1954
Place of Production:
Baie Comeau, QUEBEC, Canada
Physical Characteristics
Object Description: Gilt painted oversized wooden skeleton key with black text mounted to a cylindrical wooden block with bark on it. The top surface of the block is cut at an angle so that it slopes towards the viewer.
Materials:
wood
Marks: "VILLE / DE / BAIE COMEAU"
Measurements: Object:
Height: 9.875 in, Length: 10.5 in, Diameter: 7.25 in
Weight: 3.2 lbs
Credit
Gift of Earl Trosino USN (Ret.) RADM, 1999.19.3
Display Status
On Exhibit
Key to the City Award
About: Key to the City Award
About: Key to the City Award
This is the Key to Baie-Comeau, given to the U-505 as it passed through the Canadian town of Baie-Comeau on its way to Chicago. The eastern part of the town was founded in 1936 by Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and an influential supporter of the U-505 coming to Chicago.
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