This item consists of the ribbon bars awarded to volunteers or paid employees of the American Red Cross for 5, 10, 15, or 20 years of continuous service.
This item is a long white open-back smock worn by Carmen Trabulse. The smock has elbow-length sleeves, two small pockets, and a red cross badge just below the neck line.
This file unit contains eight surgical instruments manufactured by the companies George Tiemann & Co. and Henry Schively for use in amputations during the Civil War. The tools included in this file unit are a petit tourniquet, a pair of dressing forceps, a tenaculum, two amputation knives, a catlin, and a catheter.
This item is a tenaculum that was used by surgeons during the Civil War. The item also bears the name of Schively, a manufacturer of surgical tools from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The tool also has an ebony wood handle.
This item is a pin of the Women's Central Relief Association of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. "Ellen Collins April 29, 1861/July 7, 1865" is engraved on the back of the pin.
This item is an Army Nurse Corps Ulster outdoor coat made from dark blue worsted. On the collar is a "U.S." metal pin and an Army Nurse Corps Caduceus pin. On the left shoulder is an Army Advance Section Service and Supply wool felt patch.