Photograph albums and letters, 1905-1909.

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Photograph albums and letters, 1905-1909.

Collection includes two photograph albums and twenty-five letters written by Clara Barton from her Oxford, Massachusetts home and office, dated mostly 1905-1909, to her colleagues and associates about her new organization The National First Aid Association in Boston, Massachusetts.

Letters: 25 items.

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...

National First Aid Association of America

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