Clara Barton

ID: 22 ~ Source: National Archives and Records Administration ~ Creator: Matthew Brady ~ Date: 1866
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ID: Colorized portrait of Clara Barton in which she appears as a young white woman with dark hair plaited on either side of her head, wearing a dark blue dress with white buttons, seated beside a table with a green tablecloth.

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"She had an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritated her to be told how things have always been done. Having once defined the tyranny of precedent, she held true to her declaration of…