Ambulance used during the Spanish-American War, 1898
notes: label: Description
content: This ambulance is one of eleven vehicles purchased in 1898 by the Central Cuban Relief Committee of New York for use by Clara Barton and the American National Red Cross. The committee sent the ambulance to the Red Cross Headquarters at Camp Thomas at Chickamauga, Georgia, before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. There the Red Cross helped care for U.S. Army soldiers called to Cuba. After the war, Barton used the ambulance at her Glen Echo, Maryland, home, which served as Red Cross headquarters, storehouse, and distribution point for relief supplies.
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Clara Barton Ambulance
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The American National Red Cross
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.220190.01
label: accession number
content: 220190
label: catalog number
content: 220190.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ambulance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: on pallet: 104 in x 81 in x 136 in; 264.16 cm x 205.74 cm x 345.44 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 101 in x 77 in x 135 in; 256.54 cm x 195.58 cm x 342.9 cm