Woman's Relief Corps time capsule collection, [between 1896 and 1914].

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Woman's Relief Corps time capsule collection, [between 1896 and 1914].

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Two photographs: a portrait of Margaret Burwick Anderson; and a portrait (badly deteriorated) of an unidentified woman.

2 photographs.

Boulder Public Library

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Boulder Public Library

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Anderson, Margaret Burwick.

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...