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Collection Number: 70193

Collection Title: Stanly County Chapter of American War Mothers Records, 1941-1988

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Size 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items)
Abstract The Stanly County Chapter of American War Mothers was founded in November 1944. The collection chiefly documents the Stanly County chapter but other local chapters in North Carolina and state and national organizations are also represented. Records consist of printed constitutions and by-laws, yearbooks, meeting minutes, convention programs and other materials, financial records and treasury reports for the chapter and guest house in Oteen, N.C.; membership applications; scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs; and a book of remembrance with the names of veterans from Stanly County who died in service during World War I and World War II.
Creator American War Mothers. Stanly County (N.C.) Chapter.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Stanly County Chapter of American War Mothers Records #70193, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from unknown (Acc. 20241014.1).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2024

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2024

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American War Mothers is an organization whose members are mothers of children who have served or are serving in the Armed Services during a time of conflict. The Stanly County (N.C.) chapter was founded in November 1944. Their activities included fundraising for a guest house for relatives of veterans receiving care at the Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital in Oteen, N.C.; volunteering at the Veterans Administration hospital in Salisbury, N.C.; and attending chapter meetings and state and national conventions.

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The Stanly County Chapter of American War Mothers Records chiefly document the Stanly County chapter but other local chapters in North Carolina and state and national organizations are also represented. Records consist of printed constitutions and by-laws, yearbooks, meeting minutes, convention programs and other materials, financial records and treasury reports for the chapter and guest house in Oteen, N.C.; membership applications; scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs; and a book of remembrance with the names of veterans from Stanly County who died in service during World War I and World War II.

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Contents list

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500 items.

Box 1

Scrapbook, circa 1941-1945

Scrapbook, circa 1941-1945

Oversize Volume SV-70193/1

Scrapbook, circa 1940s-1960s

Box 1

Scrapbook, 1958-1960

Oversize Volume SV-70193/2

Scrapbook, 1962-1964

Box 1

Scrapbook, 1963-1969

Box 2

Scrapbook, 1965-1966

Scrapbook, 1966-1968

Scrapbook, 1968-1970

Scrapbook, 1970-1972

Scrapbook, 1972-1974

Scrapbook, 1974-1976

Oversize Volume SV-70193/3

Scrapbook, 1976-1979

Box 3

Scrapbook, 1981-1982

Scrapbook, 1987

Scrapbook, 1988

Scrapbook, 1989

Book of Remembrance dedicated to the Veterans of World Wars I and II by the Stanly County Chapter American War Mothers, circa 1940s

Box 4

Ritual, 1945, 1954

Birthday book, Stanly County Chapter American War Mothers, 1956

Constitution and by-laws, 1942, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1975

Constitution, North Carolina State Chapter American War Mothers, 1949

Meeting minutes, January 1956-March 1962

Meeting minutes, April 1962-December 1967

Minutes, American War Mothers Thirty-Second National Convention, Hartford, Conn., September 1979

American War Mothers National Executive Board Minutes, Oklahoma City, Ok, 1978

Treasurer reports, 1951-1957

Membership, North Carolina, 1956-1979

American War Mothers Stanly County Chapter, Albemarle, N.C., Year Books, 1954-1988

State Convention programs, 1957-1985

Guest House monthly reports, 1951-1956

Volunteer recognition certificates, 1956-1980

State Convention programs, 1957-1985

Other printed material

Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church Yearbook for 1967-1968

Singing America songbook

Women's Forum on National Security program for 1973

Memorial Day Service at the U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Memorial program for 1977

Booklet about the USS North Carolina "The 'Showboat'" by Dick Gorrell and Bruce Roberts

"Our Flag" booklet

Annual Directory of North Carolina Organizations 1977

Citizens Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) Assistance Program of the National League of Families of American Prisoners in Southeast Asia, March 1970

Newspaper clippings about American War Mothers activities, 1950s-1970s

Box 5

Papers, 1947-1982 and undated

Correspondence, historian's reports, instructions for setting up a chapter organization, list of men from Stanly County who lost their lives during World War II, printed items, and local chapter questionnaires.

Financial records, 1953-1978

Invoices and financial reports.

Membership applications, 1945-1972

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