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Lusitania medal, a copy of the 1915 medal struck by Karl Goetz, photographed 1935

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Title: Lusitania medal, a copy of the 1915 medal struck by Karl Goetz, photographed 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: November 23, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article, "Echo Heard of Lusitania. Medal Carried by U-Boat Operator Found Giving Expected Sinking Date," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: 8. The story related in this article, stating that the medal was struck for the submarine crew in advance of the sinking of the Lusitania, is fiction.
Copy of the original 1915 Lusitania medal struck by Karl Goetz showing the Lusitania going down. This copy has much less detail than the British copies shown online. Inscribed: KEINE BANN WARE [no contraband] DER GROSSDAMPFER / LUSITANIA / DURCH IEN DEUTSCHES / TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT / 5 MAY 1915 [the liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine].
Text from negative sleeve: 2961. C. S. van Auker & Lusitania medal. 11-23-35. [Stamped:] Nov 28 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10725
ark:/21198/zz002h9t82
Subject: Medals
Lusitania (Steamship)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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