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Women's sewing club in Cambridge, Mass., founded in 1861 under name Banks Brigade (honoring general who led Massachusetts forces at the outset of the Civil War); gathered weekly to knit socks, make shirts, and other supplies for local units, chiefly to be distributed by the Western Sanitary Commission; after the Civil War became primarily a social club but continued to produce clothing for a local hospital; later made clothing and bandages during the Spanish American War and World War I; continued as a social organization but donated to children's organizations during and after World War I; disbanded in 1934.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/132731647
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2004074399
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n2004074399
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Military hygiene
Orphans
Photography
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Sewing
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World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
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Massachusetts--Cambridge
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Massachusetts--Boston
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Massachusetts
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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United States
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