box - match
Dublin Core
Title
box - match
Description
Cardboard match box; one side has image of a gun-holding person with text "Milicias Populaires Sandinistas"; other side has list of names of "heroes and martyrs" in tiny text surrounding the FSLN logo of a cut-out figure, with text "1927 FSLN 1980" at bottom.
FSLN, or the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Sandinistas), was the left-wing Marxist revolutionary party that took control of Nicaragua in 1979. This match box was brought from Nicaragua by Sr. Alicia Ramirez, SL, who lived in Nicaragua 1976-1977 for the Loretto Third World Experience and returned as a nurse, 1980-1984.
FSLN, or the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Sandinistas), was the left-wing Marxist revolutionary party that took control of Nicaragua in 1979. This match box was brought from Nicaragua by Sr. Alicia Ramirez, SL, who lived in Nicaragua 1976-1977 for the Loretto Third World Experience and returned as a nurse, 1980-1984.
Date
1980s
Format
1.5" x 2 1/8"
Identifier
2023.006.002
Files
Citation
“box - match,” Loretto Heritage Center Artifacts, accessed May 15, 2024, https://lorettoheritagecenter.omeka.net/items/show/2361.