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Brisbane in 1888 was only 7 years behind the world’s first commercial public electricity supply system in Godalming in England in 1881. The advent of “cool” electric light to replace the “hot” gas lights was a welcome change for the citizens in a sub-tropical city, and as had been reported previously in the Brisbane Courier on 23 June, "during summer nights, the employees of the Post Office have suffered considerably through the vitiated state of the atmosphere in this room caused by the large consumption of gas and bad ventilation." The Barton & White enterprise started off providing the whole gamut of electrical services, as well as generation and supply wiring, by “manufacturing all fittings for electric light and power, supply brackets for lamps, sockets, cut outs, portable hand lamps, reflectors, arc lamps of 2000 candlepower, electric motors, etc., and undertake electrical work in all parts of the colony”.(S.A.Prentice Edward Barton Pioneer Electrical Engineer, 1988) From this humble beginning, using small carbon filament lamps and steam boilers fuelled by wood (because the cheaper coal was found to be a smoke nuisance), the whole electricity supply industry in Queensland has grown to provide a service right throughout our state, and which is essential to our modern way of life. Brian Becconsall, Engineering Heritage Queensland 10 Aug 2013 Source: www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resourc...

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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