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Clara Barton(1812-1912)

[Dedication of Andersonville Cemetery] Holograph journal, August 17, 1865

Manuscript Division Gift of Saidée and Hermann Riccius, 1940-1954 (46B.4)

Twenty years before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton distributed supplies and tended to the wounded and dying on Civil War battlefields. Although not the only woman engaged in such work, Barton became one of the most famous because of her efforts to identify dead and missing soldiers, especially those who perished in the Confederate prison located in Andersonville, Georgia. Due to Barton's perseverance, 12,000 graves were officially marked and Andersonville became a national cemetery on August 17, 1865. Barton, who raised the U.S. flag on that day, was overcome by emotion. She writes in her diary "Up and there it drooped as if in grief and sadness, till at length the sunlight streamed out and its beautiful folds filled--the men stuck up the Star Spangled Banner, and I covered my face and wept."

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Keeping Memories

Clara Barton

1889 diary page kept during her tenure as president of the American Red Cross and the

Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4

Holograph manuscript Manuscript Division (14A)

Titian Ramsey Peale

Diary for the South Seas kept during the Wilkes Expedition, "September 1839, Tahiti" with

illustration of Morai Page 2 - Page 3

Holograph manuscript Manuscript Division (14B)

Christian Fleetwood

Diary entry October 1, 1864 recounting Civil War battle at Chaffin's Farm

near Richmond, for which Fleetwood was awarded the Congressional

Medal of Honor Diary entry for October 5, 1864

Recorded history comes in all forms but probably the most intimate is the personal diary. Diaries can contain private thoughts, provide a personal view of daily routines or public events, include mundane inventories, or catalogue human idiosyncracies. They offer readers a unique perspective, albeit not always honest, and reveal as much about human nature as the facts and figures they can contain. The Library's Manuscript Division has a wealth of diaries by famous authors as well as ones by writers now unknown. Although there are other such volumes interspersed throughout this exhibition, the five diaries on display here are a gateway into the Memory section of the exhibition--the public and personal side of history as they are revealed in the collections of the Library of Congress.

Alcott Farrar Elwell (1886-1962)

1908 diary entry for "Apple Pie," from his holograph notebook of recipes used while

serving as a camp cook for the expedition of the U.S. Geodetic Survey's

Roosevelt Lignite Conservation Survey in Wyoming, 1908

Manuscript Division (14D)

Walt Whitman

"Friday, Saturday, Sunday -- December 20 and 21 was at Falmouth

opposite Fredericksburg" 1862 diary kept during the Civil

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War Lecture #3 Barton, Clara

CREATED/PUBLISHED ca. 1866

CALL NUMBER Clara Barton Papers, container 152

MEDIUM 92 p.

REPOSITORY Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID mssmisc awh0016

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TITLE: Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross.

CALL NUMBER: POS - WWI - US, no. 118 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7756 (color film copy transparency)

SUMMARY: Red Cross recruitment poster showing a basket of yarn and knitting needles.

MEDIUM: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: N.Y. : American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918]

SUBJECTS:

American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Knitting--1910-1920. Yarn--1910-1920. War work--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

War posters American 1910-1920. Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g07756 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g07756

CARD #: 00652152

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TITLE: 10,000,000 members by Christmas On Christmas eve, a candle in every window and Red Cross members in every home.

CALL NUMBER: POS - WWI - US, no. 415 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-9463 (color film copy transparency) No known restrictions on publication. For information see "World War I Posters" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/243_wwipos.html)

SUMMARY: Poster showing a holly-decked candle in a window, with the Red Cross symbol in its glow.

MEDIUM: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 49 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1917]

NOTES:

Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

SUBJECTS:

American Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Christmas decorations--1910-1920. Candles--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

War posters American 1910-1920. Lithographs Color 1910-1920.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g09463 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09463

CARD #: 20026955

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TITLE: [Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

CALL NUMBER: LOT 8494 <item> [P&P] Find any corresponding online LOT(group) record

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-6307 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-92528 (b&w film copy neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: ca. 1865.

NOTES:

Clara Barton Collection.

Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-2005.

SUBJECTS:

Barton, Clara, 1821-1912.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1870. Cartes de visite 1860-1870. Photographic prints 1860-1870.

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06307 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06307 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b38826 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b38826

VIDEO FRAME ID: LCPP003B-38826 (from b&w film copy neg.)

CARD #: 96502857