Women of the Civil War memorial dedication
Contributors: Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1917
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Women; Monuments; American Red Cross. National Headquarters; American Red Cross
Other titles: Program dedication exercises, Washington, D.C. , May 12, 1917
Description: Commission on Memorial to Women of the Civil War. Program Dedication exercises, Washington, D.C., May 12, 1917 held in the auditorium of Memorial Continental Hall. Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, President, American Red Cross, Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, Chairman, Hon. John Sharp Williams, Chairman, Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, Hon. James M. Slayden, Chairman, Committee on the Library, House of Representatives, Wm. W. Harts. Colonel, U.S. Army, Executive Disbursing Officer, Officer in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds, Supervising Construction, Trowbridge & Livingston, Architects, New York City. The Boyle-Robertson Construction Company, Builders, Washington, D.C.
Notes: Washington, D.C., May 12, 1917, Memorial Continental Hall.

Title devised by Library staff.

"A memorial built by the government of the United States and patriotic citizens to the women of the North and the women of the South held in loving memory by a now United Country that their labors to mitigate the sufferings of the sick and wounded in war may be perpetuated this memorial is dedicated to the service of the American Red Cross"--Cover.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Order of exercises held in the auditorium of Memorial Continental Hall. Presiding Officer Hon. William Howard Taft; title: Presntation of the Memorial to the American Red Cross Association Hon. Newton D. Baker, Chariman of the Building Commission; title: Acceptance, the President of the United States, President of the Red Cross Association [Woodrow Wilson]; title: Address "The Women of the South" / Hon. John Sharp Williams; title: Address "The Women of the North" / Rev. Horace Percy Silver, Chaplain, West Point, N.Y.; title: Benedition / Rev. Horace Percy Silver.