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Key to the City Award

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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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