Clarissa Clara Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office Museum Videos
SBA - NSBW - Smithsonian American History Event - Sunday May 1st, 2016
National Capital Planning Commission (USA) Meeting, December, 2015
Proceedings from the December 3, 2015 meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission. Featured: 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue Plan Amendment; Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda; National China Garden; Franklin Square Park; Gold Star Mothers National Monument; National World War I Memorial (Info Presentation); NIH Transportation Plan update (Info Presentation).