Social-service activist and anti-suffragist Emily P. Bissell (1861-1948) introduced the Christmas Seal in the US in 1907 to raise $300 for a struggling sanitorium run by the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society in Wilmington, Delaware. After a slow start, the wildly successful campaign raised almost $3000 and went national the next year. Christmas Seals are still a fund-raiser for the American Lung Association. In Delaware, the anti-tuberculosis society was able to purchase land for a new sanitorium and named Bissell their president, a post she held until her death. The sanitorium was renamed in her honor in 1953. The property is now vacant.