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title: Bijeli orao (White Eagle), postcard for the first Yugoslav all-Sokol rally, Ljubljana, 12-15 August 1922
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bijeli-orao-sokol-1922/
description: A white eagle with the Serbian cross-and-firesteels shield on its breast grips a bundle of staffs above toppled imperial emblems, among them a…
section: Collection
---

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# Bijeli orao (White Eagle), postcard for the first Yugoslav all-Sokol rally, Ljubljana, 12-15 August 1922

A white eagle with the Serbian cross-and-firesteels shield on its breast grips a bundle of staffs above toppled imperial emblems, among them a double-headed eagle. The tell is the borrowed state emblem: the national arms are placed on a gymnastic movement's rally card and set over the fallen emblems of the old empires.

## Text on the object

Original (N/A) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[artist's signature at lower left in Cyrillic, illegible at this size]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[artist's signature at lower left in Cyrillic, illegible at this size]
```

The card carries no printed caption on the front; only a signature is visible. The title and rally are taken from the Commons description.

[← Vossische Zeitung, Nr. 297, 25 June 1922: "Der Aufruf zum Schutz der Republik"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vossische-zeitung-aufruf-zum-schutz-der-republik-1922/) [As duas imprensas (The Two Presses) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/as-duas-imprensas-o-malho-1922/)

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