Clara barton during the civil war. Miss stiehm argues that she played a major role in playing for caring for soldiers during and after the war. This talk was hosted by Georgetown Public Library and it is about an hour. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for coming out this rainy day. I am the librarian here at the peabody room. A special collection of georgetown neighborhood history and it is part of the District Of Columbia Public Library special collections which consists of the washingtonian and black studies. Both of those are located at the Martin Luther king jr. Library. I would like to welcome miss jamie stiehm back. She has become one of our regulars here talking about a disparate group from American History. She is a syndicate columnist and contributor to usnews. Com, today she will speak about clara barton remarkable civil war humanitarian work. [applause] ms. Stiehm this is the Perfect Place to be speaking about civil war washington. The room itself takes us there. I am
Part of the district of Columbia Public Library special collections which consists of the washingtonian and black studies. Both of those are located at the Martin Luther king jr. Library. I would like to welcome miss jamie stiehm back. She has become one of our regulars here talking about a disparate group from American History. She is a syndicate columnist and m,ntributor to usnews. Co antedate she will speak about civilbarton remarkable war humanitarian work. [applause] ms. Stiehm this is the Perfect Place to be speaking about civil war washington. The room itself takes us there. I am happy to see all of you. I will speak for about 20 minutes and then open the floor to questions. You probably know that clara nurse. Was a civil war there was much more to her than that. Humanitarian. If she were alive today she might have one the nobel peace prize. In 1861, clara barton was a 39 year old single woman with new england written all over her demeanor. She could not rest easy until she foun
Automobile which shows a great deal of foresight. The town that came out of the apt toake was much more be able to be more modern, by 1907 standards. Others looking at what santa rosa it was doing were impressed and one particularly who served referred to santa rosa as the plucky us count on the coast. Town on the coast. Watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, American History tv and american artifacts visits historic places. The National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from Andrew Mellon who served as toasury secretary from 1921 1932. Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. We feature the work of Gilbert Stuart whose image of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Gilbert stuart went to study with Benjamin West early in his career. He was a very well established painter in london, very proficient and could have stayed in england painting and
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