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Title: |
United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) Records |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch |
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Dates: |
1842-1878 |
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Bulk dates: |
1861-1869 |
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Quantity: |
22.00 linear feet (41 containers, 41 oversize volumes, and 1 wrapped package) |
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Abstract: |
The United States Sanitary Commission (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) was established in 1861 in Cleveland, Ohio, to provide for the physical needs of soldiers by improving camp hygiene and diets, collecting and disbursing hospital stores, inspecting hospitals and other medical facilities, caring for sick and wounded soldiers, registering and burying the dead, building and supporting a soldiers home, and conducting a special relief system and employment service. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, receipt, cash, and memoranda books, acknowledgements of equipment received, bank drafts, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes invoices and other papers concerning the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864, and a memoir of Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the organization. |
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Identification: |
MS 1012 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |