{"id":1036,"date":"2015-02-12T21:19:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:38:41","slug":"new-exhibit-opens-today-sousa-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2015\/02\/12\/new-exhibit-opens-today-sousa-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit Opens Today at the Sousa Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4507\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/That-Red-Cross-Girl-of-Mine2-805x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4507 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/That-Red-Cross-Girl-of-Mine2-805x1024-1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/That-Red-Cross-Girl-of-Mine2-805x1024-1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/That-Red-Cross-Girl-of-Mine2-805x1024-1-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/That-Red-Cross-Girl-of-Mine2-805x1024-1.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThat Red Cross Girl of Mine\u201d from the James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sousa Archives&#8217; new exhibit, <em>The Red Cross: A Soldier\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>, opened today, and features a sample of sheet music cover art from the James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection.\u00a0 This graphic imagery illustrates America\u2019s colorful portrayals of the Red Cross volunteer during World War I.\u00a0 Clara Barton, who earned recognition as the \u201cAngel of the Battlefield\u201d for her humanitarian service during America\u2019s Civil War, founded the American Red Cross in May 1881 as an associate relief organization of the International Committee of the Red Cross Organization.\u00a0 However, unlike its international associate, the American Red Cross devoted most of its early service efforts to provide relief for those individuals from the United States affected by natural disasters, such as the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.\u00a0 During America\u2019s involvement in WWI, both the International and American Red Cross played a major role in arranging transportation of volunteers to the Western Front to aid soldiers injured during battle; and in 1917, the Red Cross received the only Nobel Peace Prize awarded between 1914 and 1918.\u00a0 The American public lauded these volunteers for their devotion to the troops, and many of America\u2019s popular songs were written to honor the men and women of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sousa Archives&#8217; new exhibit, The Red Cross: A Soldier\u2019s Best Friend, opened today, and features a sample of sheet music cover art from the James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection.\u00a0 This graphic imagery illustrates America\u2019s colorful portrayals of the Red Cross volunteer during World War I.\u00a0 Clara Barton, who earned recognition as the \u201cAngel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}