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American Red Cross
7401 Lockport Place
Lorton, VA 22041
Tel. 703 541-4601
Fax 800 989-2272

Hours: By appointment only, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The center is closed on most national holidays and on the Day after Thanksgiving.

The Hazel Braugh Records Center and Archives houses the corporate memory of the American Red Cross National Headquarters. The Center holds organizational records and a library collection Library Collection as well as still and moving image materials. The Red Cross' compelling history is documented through

  • correspondence,
  • publications,
  • memoirs,
  • oral histories,
  • scrapbooks,
  • photographs, and
  • video.

Subjects in the Archives include:
  • Disaster relief,
  • Blood Donor Program,
  • Nursing services,
  • Assistance to the Military,
  • Health and Safety,
  • Junior Red Cross, and
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

For additional information on the American Red Cross please contact the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Library of Congress. The National Archives has Red Cross organizational records dating from 1881 to recent decades. The Library of Congress has a collection of still photographs from the early years of the American Red Cross, including the World War I era.