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Hazel Braugh Record Center & Archives

With publications dating from the nineteenth century, the library collection in the Historical Resources Department of the American Red Cross is composed of approximately 3,000 unique titles: books, periodicals, reports, recordings, manuals, and pamphlets produced by or referencing the American Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement. The Library collection includes, but is not limited to, American Red Cross history, American Red Cross publications, the Blood Services Program, Disaster Relief, First Aid, Lifesaving, Nursing, Service to the Military, and War Relief as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross, individual Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The Library is located in the Hazel Braugh Records Center and Archives at 5818 Seminary Road, Falls Church, Virginia. The phone number is (703) 813-5380.

The following titles, arranged by subject, are representative of the library collection.

American Red Cross History and Biographies
-The American Red Cross: The First Century, by Patrick F. Gilbo, 1981.
-The American Red Cross: A History, by Rhea Foster Dulles, 1950.
-Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton, by Ishbel Ross, 1956.
-Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross, 1996 by John F. Hutchinson
-Charles Richard Drew: The Man and the Myth, by Charles E. Wymes, 1988.
-Clara Barton: A Broad Humanity, by Clyde Buckingham, Feb. 1, 1976.
-Clara Barton: Professional Angel, by Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 1987.
-The Compact History of the American Red Cross, by Charles Hurd, 1959.
-Dunant: The Story of the Red Cross by Martin Gumpert, 1938.
-The History of the American National Red Cross, 1861-1948, Vols. 1-49, 1950.
-Pioneering with the Red Cross, Ernest P. Bicknell, 1935.
-The Red Cross, by Clara Barton, 1898.
-Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad, by Mabel T. Boardman, 1915.

American Red Cross Publications
-American Junior Red Cross Bulletin, 1942, 1943, 1945-1948.
-American Junior Red Cross News-Spanish Edition, 1948-1967.
-American Red Cross Annual Reports, 1900 to present.
-The American National Red Cross Bulletin, 1906-1912.
-American Red Cross Courier, 1922-1951.
-American Red Cross Magazine, 1913-1921.
-Cue-In, 1975-1976, 1985.
-The Volunteer, 1947-1950.

Blood Services Program
-Blood, the River of Life, by Donald R. Avoy, 1976.
-Blood Service Bulletin, 1986.
-The Story of Blood, by John H. Glynn, 1948.

Disaster Services
-Disasters and the American Red Cross in Disaster Relief, 1918 by J. Byron Deacon.
-Emergency Relief by the American Red Cross after the Wreck of the Titanic, April 15, 1912.
-The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of Relief Operations of the American National Red Cross,1929.
-The Ohio Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937: Report of Relief Operations of the American Red Cross, 1938.
-Report of the American Red Cross Commission to China, 1929.
-Report of the American Red Cross Relief: Galveston Texas, 1900-1901.
-Typhus Fever with Serbian Reference to the Serbian Epidemic, by Richard P. Strong, 1920.

First Aid and Lifesaving
-American Red Cross Abridged Textbook on First Aid, Miner's Edition, 1917.
-American Red Cross Advanced First Aid and Emergency Care, 1973.
-American Red Cross Canoeing, 1956.
-American Red Cross First Aid Textbook for Juniors, 1949.
-The Reporter: First Aid, Water Safety, and Accident Prevention, 1943-1950.
-American Red Cross Standard First Aid and Personal Safety, 1973.
-American National Red Cross Swimming and Diving, 1938.
International Committee of the Red Cross, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
-Beyond Conflict: the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1919-1994, by Patrick F. Gilbo and Daphne Reid.
-France Red Cross, Annual Report, 1911.
-General Report of the League of Red Cross Societies, 1938-1952, 1957-1965.
-The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of POWs of August 12, 1949, Convention No. III & IV.
-The Geneva Red Cross Movement: European and American Influence on its Development, by Albert B. Love, 1942.
-International Committee of the Red Cross Documents, 1914-1918.
-International Red Cross Conference, 1938, 1948, 1952, 1957, 1965, 1969, 1973.
-International Relief in Action, by Hertha Kraus, 1914-1943.
-International Review of the Red Cross, 1961-2000, (See also Revue Internationale de la Croix Rouge)
-Italian Red Cross, Bulletin, 1906-1907, 1911-1912.
- Information Bulletin, League of Red Cross Societies, Review and Information Bulletin
- Japan Red Cross, Russo Japanese War, 1907.
-League of Red Cross Societies, Annual Reports, 1962, 1966 -1971.
-League of Red Cross Societies, Coordinated Relief Bulletin, Vols., 3-6, 1948-1951.
-League of Red Cross Societies, International Health Bulletin, Vols. 1-3, 1949-1951.
-League of Red Cross Societies, Junior Red Cross Newsletter, 1947-1966.
-League of Red Cross Societies, The National Red Cross Societies and Post-War Relief, 1944.
-A Memory of Solferino, by J. Henry Dunant, 1939.
-Red Cross Unit in Serbia, 1916.
-Red Cross Work, Periodical Excerpts, 1871-1907.
-Report International Committee of the Red Cross General Activities, 1947-1951.
-Revue Internationale de la Croix Rouge, 1919-1961. (See also International Review of the Red Cross)
-American Red Cross Information Service, Nursing Service, 1949, 1951-1954, 1956-1958, 1960.
-American Red Cross Textbook on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, by Jane Delano, 1918.
-A History of Nursing: From the Earliest Time to Present Day, by Lavinia Dock, 1922.
-The Red Cross Nurse in Action, 1882-1948, by Portia B. Kernodle, 1949.
-State Charities Aid Association: A Century of Nursing, with Hints Toward the Origination of a Training School, by a Member of the Hospital Committee, 1876.

Service to the Military and War Relief
-American National Red Cross Relief Committee Reports, May 1898-March 1899.
-American Red Cross Base Hospital, No. 38, in the World War, 1918-1919, by William Michael Late Coplin, 1923.
-The American Red Cross in the Great War by Henry P. Davison, 1919.
-The Children of France and the Red Cross, by Bertha June Lucas, 1918.
-Documents of the United States Sanitary Commission, Vols. I-II, 1866.
-Foreign War Relief Operations, World War II 1939-1945, American National Red Cross Report to the President of the United States, 1948.
-The Red Cross News for United States Prisoners of War, World War II, Vols. 1-2, 1943-1945.

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