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[Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], ca. 1865. — historic photograph
[Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], ca. 1865.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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Taken around 1865, this carte de visite shows Clara Barton in a head-and-shoulders pose, turned to the right, on the small card mount that made portraits inexpensive to buy and trade in the 1860s. The date matters: Barton had spent the Civil War nursing wounded soldiers near the front, and in 1865 she began work tracing missing men for their families. She later founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for more than two decades. The Library of Congress holds this print in its Clara Barton Collection, and it was shown in the *American Treasures* exhibition in 2004 and 2005.

Created / publishedca. 1865.
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
NotesClara Barton Collection. Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-2005.
SubjectsBarton, Clara,--1821-1912.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,016 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163741

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