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    "title": "\"Before the Red Cross\" Leaflet",
    "description": "This item is a leaflet that contains the personal reminiscences of Mrs. Richard Aldrich (formerly Louisa Lee Schuyler) and Mrs. William B. Rice (formerly Gertrude Stevens) regarding their experiences and service with the U.S. Sanitary Commission.",
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    "ocrText": "these wonderful friends for their leadership\nin a work of humanity in behalf of our army\nwell and wisely planned and carried on with\ncomplete unselfishness; a pioneer work of\nMiss Schuyler and Mrs. Rice began to\nwhich all American women can be proud, the\nwork together in 1861. They are still serving\nspirit of which it is the privilege of the mem-\nside by side. In 1872 Miss Schuyler founded\nbers of the Red Cross Society to perpetuate\nthe State Charities Aid Association. Mrs.\nand to extend throughout the world until wars\nRice entered into the work of the Association\nshall cease and the Will of God be done \"in\nthree years later and has been actively en-\nEarth as it is in Heaven.\"\ngaged in it ever since. Her chief interest has\nbeen in work for the children.*\nWhen in 1907 Mrs. Sage created the Rus-\nsell Sage Foundation she made Miss Schuyler\nand Mrs. Rice trustees.\nThe story of the achievements of more re-\ncent years can not be told here; but we can\npay a tribute of admiration and respect to\nA remarkable work in behalf of foundlings and abandoned\nbabies was initiated by the States Charities Aid Association\nin 1898 and carried on by a Joint Committee of the States\nCharities Aid Association and the Association for Improving\nthe Condition of the Poor until 1907. During these nine\nyears foundlings picked up in the streets and babies aban-\ndoned by their parents were cared for by two volunteer\nagencies, the Joint Committee (Protestant) and the Guild\nof the Infant Saviour (Catholic). The Guild was formed\nafter the work was initiated by the Joint Committee to care\nfor babies whose parents were known to have been Roman\nCatholics. The City adopted the plan of assigning the\nfoundlings alternately to the Committee and to the Guild.\nThe total number of children received from the City by\nthe Joint Committee was one thousand. Over forty thousand\ndollars was raised by the Committee in voluntary subscrip-\ntions to care for these waifs in addition to the two dollars\na week per child allowed them by the City. The Joint Com-\nmittee either placed the babies in homes, restored them to\ntheir parents, or otherwise gave them individual care, thus\nreducing the terribly high death rate which had prevailed\namong infants when they were sent to the Asylum on Ran-\ndall's Island, to a rate a little below the normal. To the\ngreat regret of the State Charities Aid Association the plan\nwas discontinued by the City in 1907; but the new methods\nthen so successfully employed have exerted an important in-\nfluence ever since. Mrs. Rice was the first chairman of the\nCommittee on Mothers and Babies, the Placing Out Com-\nmittee and the County Agencies Committee.\n30\n3I"
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