Studio Portrait of Clara Barton, c. Early 1900s, With Several Red Cross Accoutrements.
United States: Brown Bros. c. early 1900s. Silver gelatin print measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches. Manuscript verso including “Brown Bros.”, “Clara Barton”, “BARTON, CLARA / portraits”. Very good contrast. Some marks on the recto with one small chip to lower right margin; excellent. Item #List3748
A studio portrait of nurse and American Red Cross founder Clara Barton. The portrait was likely taken around the early 1900s, based on Barton’s apparent age and the lace fichu she wears, which resembles the one worn in her 1904 portrait by James E. Purdy. Barton wears several Red Cross brooches—one at the neck and one on a ribbon at the chest—and sits beside another Red Cross piece, likely a nurse’s cap. These accoutrements may date the photograph to somewhat before 1904; that year, she was pressured to resign as president of the Red Cross, and in her Purdy portrait does not wear any of its insignia.
Price: $300.00