Red Cross March -- Phonograph Record
Recorded by Walter P. Philips
Clara Barton National Historic Site, National Park Service
Glen Echo, MD, United States
The “Red Cross March," played by the Columbia Band is dedicated to Clara Barton. Phillips was longtime Barton and American Red Cross supporter. They met when Philips was in charge of the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press. He was a former journalist and telegraph operator and the inventor of the “Phillips Code” from which the acronym POTUS [ President of the United States] derives, as well as the common use of two letter abbreviations for states, such as PA for Pennsylvania. Phillips was involved with the Columbia Graphophone Company for 15 years. He also wrote an article on the Barton's work.
- Title: Red Cross March -- Phonograph Record
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Contributor: Clara Barton National Historic Site National Park Service
- Original Source: http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/clba/exb/American_Red_Cross/Resignation/CLBA4539_record.html
- Transcript: By the constitution of our own American organization which, from the first, gave to other great national calamities the same prominence of war, this latter subject has never been a question with us, as yourselves have only too frequent opportunity to realize, and we watch with deep interest the effect of our [hither?] bold initiative upon the decisions of other nations.
- Source: Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Played By: Played by the Columbia Band
- National Park Service Catalog Number: CLBA4539
- Measurements: L 25.5, W 26 cm (Sleeve), Dia 25.5 cm (Record)
- Materials: Plastic, paper
- Date: c 1901
- Creator: Recorded by Walter P. Philips, Recorded by Walter P. Philips
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