Clara Barton

(1821 to 1912) At a time when relatively few women worked outside the home, Clara Barton built a career helping others. She was an educator and set... more

by Jan Mecklenburg

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Dimensions

24.000 x 30.000 x 1.500 inches

Title

Clara Barton

Artist

Jan Mecklenburg

Medium

Painting - Acrylics On Canvas

Description

(1821 to 1912) At a time when relatively few women worked outside the home, Clara Barton built a career helping others. She was an educator and set up a free school. She worked for equal rights for women and blacks. Yet her greatest achievement was establishing the American branch of the international Red Cross.
During the Civil war she was a prominent nurse and got permission to work on the front lines. People supported her cause and helped by sending bandages, food and clothing. Many became lifetime follows of her humanitarian causes. After the Civil War she visited Europe and first heard of the Swiss global Red Cross network. Upon returning home to the United States she campaigned for an American Red Cross.

She was its founder and President for 23 years. Bartons last operation was helping victims of the Galveston hurricne in 1900. She was 82 at the time. None the less Clara Barton was forced out of office by a younger generation of all-male scientific-experts who were part of a Progressive Era and argued that the American Red Cross should also respond to non war disasters such as hurricanes, forest fires and earthquakes. After resigning Barton founded the National First Aid Society. She never married and lived until ninety.

In 1975, the Clara Barton National Historic Site was established in her home in Glen Echo, Maryland where she spent the last 15 years of her life. It is one of the first National Historic Sites dedicated to the accomplishments of a woman.

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January 6th, 2015