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Clara Barton - Civil War Photograph
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Clara Barton, Civil War period.
Reproduced from a tintype, about 1860-1865.

Clara Barton - tintype - Civil War
Image courtesy of U.S. LIbrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Modifications © Jone Lewis 2001.

Clara Barton worked in the Civil War, first collecting medical supplies and then on the battlefield and in hospitals.  She went on to found the American Red Cross.

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