Clara Barton National Historic Site, MarylandUnited States. National Park Service
History
Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland
United States. National Park Service
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912; Clara Barton National Historic Site (Md.)
[Illustration: Johnstown Flood Museum]
Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress, 10 First Street, SE,
Washington, D.C. 20540. In the 1930s the Hubbell sisters were doing some
remodeling on the Clara Barton House. In the process they discovered a
boarded-up corridor between two bedrooms. When the corridor was reopened
they found the area filled with Clara Barton’s personal papers, diaries,
scrapbooks, and other memorabilia of her life and career. Who put them
there remains unknown. The two sisters presented the entire cache to the
Library of Congress. The collection has been sorted and indexed and is
available for the use of scholars only.
[Illustration: Library of Congress]
Armchair Explorations: Some Books You May Want to Read
Barton, Clara. _A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work._ New
York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904.
——. _The Story of My Childhood._ New York: The Baker and Taylor
Company, 1907.
Barton, William E. _The Life of Clara Barton._ 2 vols. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1922.
Dulles, Foster Rhea. _The American Red Cross: A History._ New York:
Harper, 1950.
Dunant, Jean-Henri. _A Memory of Solferino._ Washington, D.C.: The
American National Red Cross, 1939.
Fishwick, Marshall. _Illustrious Americans: Clara Barton._ Morristown,
New Jersey: Silver-Burdett, 1966.
Flexner, Eleanor. _Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in
the United States._ Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Leech, Margaret. _Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865._ New York:
Harper, 1941.
Ross, Ishbel. _Angel of the Battlefield._ New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1956.
★ GPO: 1981—341-611/1
Stock Number 024-005-00806-3.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, DC 20402
Index
_Numbers in italics refer to photographs or illustrations._
A
American Equal Rights Association, 32
American Red Cross, 27, 42;
disaster relief, 6, 11, 33, 34, 48-59 _passim_, 77;
headquarters, 6-7, 13, 52, 68-71, 76;
photos, _51_, _56_, _68-69_, _71_;
under Clara Barton’s leadership, 11, 45, 46, 48-50, 52, 54,
56-59
Andersonville National Historic Site, 6, 33, _72-73_
Anthony, Susan B., 7, _10_, 43, 62
Antietam National Battlefield, 6, 25, _72_
Appia, Louis, 10, 11, 35, 39, 43
Atwater, Dorence, 33-34, 72
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