The Pittsburgh Chapter, American Red Cross
Author : American Red Cross. Pittsburgh Chapter
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Page : 946 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : American Red Cross. Pittsburgh Chapter
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Page : 946 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : American Red Cross Pittsburgh Chapter
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2015-09-27
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ISBN : 9781343608955
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Author : American Red Cross. Pittsburgh Chapter
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Page : 135 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 1946*
Category : Disaster relief
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Author : American Red Cross. Pittsburgh Chapter
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Page : 87 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : American Red Cross Pittsburgh Chapter Staff
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
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ISBN : 9781581035209
Author : Marian Moser Jones
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1421408236
The iconic relief organization’s activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: “Well-researched . . . fascinating.” —Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This book tells the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization’s expansion during World War I • race riots and massacres in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization’s current practices and international reputation.
Author : American National Red Cross
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
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Author : Elizabeth Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1625848048
When the whole of Europe went to war in 1914, Pittsburgh watched the storm clouds gather at home. Yet Pittsburgh was a city of immigrants--the large Polish community urged leaders to join the side of the Allies, while German immigrants supported the Central powers. By the time the country entered World War I in 1917, Pittsburghers threw their support into the war effort united as Americans. With over 250 mills and factories, the Steel City and Allegheny County produced half of the steel and much of the munitions used by the Allies. Pittsburgh gave more than steel--sixty thousand men went to war, and women flocked to the front lines as nurses. One of the first gas masks on the western front was developed at the Mellon Institute, while the city's large Red Cross provided tireless support on the homefront. Historian Elizabeth Williams traces the remarkable story of Pittsburgh during the Great War.
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1920
Category : American National Red Cross
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1925
Category : America
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