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Photograph

Clara Barton

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Clara Harlowe Barton. On April 20, 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), she established an...
Photograph

Mamie (Arms) Hall with Red Cross Badge

Date: 
Description: Mamie Arms Hall, mother of Lewis Arms, holds up her red cross badge which shows she has a son at war. These badges were usually displayed on a door or in a...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Afghan for Red Cross

Date: 1941
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Home Nursing Class

Date: 1942
Description: Image of outdoor group portrait from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of a Red Cross home nursing class held January-May 1942 at the se...
Photograph

Ward in the Red Cross Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: Indoor group portrait of wounded soldiers in the hospital ward, some of which have been wounded. Others soldiers are in uniform and are presumably uninjure...
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
Poster

You Can Help

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a young woman sitting in a chair knitting. The symbol of the Red Cross is in the upper left corner. The poster reads: "You can...
Poster

For All Humanity

Date: 1918
Description: Posters featuring a photograph of a female nurse looking out of a window. Two empty hospital beds with white covers and a chair is in the room behind her. ...
Poster

Third Red Cross Roll Call

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a female nurse in a white uniform with a Red Cross logo on her dress and her hat. She is also wearing a long white veil...
Poster

Still the Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ...
Poster

The Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the...
Poster

The Queen of Belgium Appealed to the Red Cross to Aid in Saving the Children

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman and two children standing together. The woman is wearing a Red Cross hat. There Red Cross insignia is in the up...
Poster

Eight Million Patriotic Red Cross Workers Have Made 291,004,000 Necessary Articles For War Purposes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman wearing a hat with the Red Cross insignia on it. Details are about the contributions that women have made towar...

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