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[Miss Mabel Boardman and women delegates to the American Red Cross] – Historic Print

[Miss Mabel Boardman and women delegates to the American Red Cross], c1917 July 18. — historic photograph
[Miss Mabel Boardman and women delegates to the American Red Cross], c1917 July 18.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Miss Mabel Boardman and women delegates to the American Red Cross], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Mabel Thorp Boardman, a longtime leader of the American Red Cross, is shown here with women delegates to the organization in a group portrait dated around July 18, 1917. The United States had entered the First World War in April of that year, and the Red Cross was rapidly expanding its relief, nursing, and home-front work. Women volunteers and organizers were central to that growth, and Boardman was among the most prominent women directing it. The photograph was made by the Bachrach studio, a commercial portrait firm, so it reflects the formal conventions of studio group portraiture of the period.

Created / publishedc1917 July 18.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1910-1920.Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ224553 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Bachrach.
SubjectsBoardman, Mabel Thorp,--1860-1946. American Red Cross--People--1910-1920. Women--Meetings--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161701

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