A profile of the United States Sanitary Commission, founded in 1861, which helped promote health in the Union Army Camps, provide supplies, and raise money for the Union effort.

Sanitary Commission workers outside Home Lodge, Washington, D.C.

Sanitary Commission workers outside Home Lodge, Washington, D.C.

Sanitary Commission

Pictures of nurses and officers of the US Sanitary Commission, Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1865.

Washington, D.C., Central Office of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. 1333 F Street, N.W. - April 1865

Suffrage worker, Sanitary Commission organizer and hospital worker, reporter, editor, and writer, Mary Rice Livermore was married to a Univeralist minister and was active in the woman's rights movement as well as temperance and abolitionist movements

An index of Profiles for the Women's History guide site.

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