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This scrapbook of the Topeka Chapter of the American War Mothers includes memorial programs, photographs and newspaper clippings. 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. The Topeka chapter was organized in 1927 and disbanded in 1976.
Creator: American War Mothers. Topeka Chapter
Date: 1956-1963
Item Number: 315411
Call Number: Manuscripts Collection 122
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 315411
Collections - Manuscript - American War Mothers
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Social and Civic - American War Mothers
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Military - Wars - Korean War - Home Front
Military - Wars - Vietnam War
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Scrapbook
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961 - Korean War
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975 - Vietnam War
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Scrapbooks
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