Card
1887

This card depicts the “National Temperance Hospital and Clara Barton Training School for Nurses" in Chicago, IL. It is dated April 15, 1877. The Clara Barton Training School for Nurses was named in honor of Miss Barton and she attended the school opening. Miss Barton knew several women associated with this hospital, including Frances Willard and Mary Weeks Burnett.  Burnett was a matron at the Dansville, NY sanitarium at the time Barton was there in the mid 1870s.  Mrs. Mary B. Willard was the mother of Frances Willard, a prominent suffragette.

The group of women listed on the National Temperance Hospital Board, were well educated and committed to social reforms for women. Several were involved in advancing African American causes.  They were teachers, writers, and editors who established the hospital to “demonstrate to the world the scientific fact that alcohol is not necessary as a food or medicine.”
Paper. H 9.0, W 14.8 cm
Clara Barton National Historic Site, CLBA 63