In Partnership with Atlas Obscura
Events
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Obscura Day: Cut It Off
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesSOLD OUT: On Obscura Day, join us as we turn the Clara Barton Missing Soldier's Office into a makeshift operating theater for a Civil War-style amputation.
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Washington DC’s Working Girls
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesLearn about the 19th century's working girls: those in the workplace for the first time, and those working in the world's oldest profession.
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Cut It Off! An Amputation and Demonstration
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesJoin Atlas Obscura as they get into the Halloween spirit and turn the Missing Soldiers Office into an impromptu operating theater.
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Washington, D.C.’s ‘Working Girls’
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesStep into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about D.C.’s 19th century working women: from government clerks to prostitutes.
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Cut It Off! A Halloween Amputation Demonstration
Watch as a skilled medical historian amputates a (model) leg using Civil War-era surgical tools.
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Cut It Off! An Amputation Demonstration at the Missing Soldiers Office
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesThe Missing Soldiers Office is partnering with Atlas Obscura to explore the history of amputations and the American Civil War.
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The Golden Age of Magic – Spiritualism and 19th Century Illusions
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesJoin professional illusionist and magic historian Michael Cantori for a deep dive into spiritualism, seances, and 19th-century illusions.
$25
