This scrapbook of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes certificates, photos, an annual report cover, memorial programs, and a volunteer recognition program. This patriotic service group was organized in 1927 and disbanded in 1976. The American War Mothers, a national organization founded in 1917 and incorporated by an act of Congress in 1925, is a perpetual, patriotic, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, non-partisan organization whose members are mothers of children who have served or are serving in the U.S. Armed Services during a time of conflict.
Kansas Memory
Kansas Historical Society
The American War Mother Book - Certificate from USO, 1958