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See notes on chaotic conditions in Mexico City under this Bain photo:

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Miss Clara Harlow Barton, called Clara, the volunteer nurse of the Civil War, earned the nickname "Angel of the Battlefield" for her unerring efforts caring for the wounded of both sides. She was a pioneer in military health, a genius of public relations, and the world’s founder of systems for identifying the missing and the dead.

In June, 1995, the US Postal Service honored Clara with a 32¢ stamp as part of the American Civil War Classic Collection. First Day of Issue ceremonies were held on June 29, 1995, in front of the Cyclorama Center at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. (Scott 2975c).

I'm struck by the remarkable similarity of the likeness in the stamp to that of the Mathew Brady portrait of Clara Barton (above), however I've not found anything to indicate Brady's portrait was the basis for the stamp.

Clara Barton was also honored with a 3¢ commemorative stamp in September, 1948, as the founder of the American Red Cross in 1881. First Day ceremonies were held on September 7, 1948, in Clara's hometown of Oxford, Massachusetts. (Scott 967).

 
                 
        Clara Barton - Civil War Issue       Clara Barton - Founder American Red Cross
 

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Henry P. Davison (left) - Henry Pomeroy Davison (June 12, 1867 - May 6, 1922) was an American banker and philanthropist. "He founded Bankers Trust Company, and became a senior partner at JP Morgan & Company, and in 1910 he was a participant in the secretive meeting on Jekyll Island, Georgia that may have led to the creation of the Federal Reserve. "With the entry of the United States in World War I in 1917, Davision was named Chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross. In 1919, he published a book, The American Red Cross in the Great War, describing the wartime activities of the Red Cross." -- Wikipedia Henry P. Davison: The record of a useful life. By his friend and partner. Thomas W. Lamont, Harper Bros.

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