American Legion Auxiliary Unit 26
Scope and Contents
This collection of artifacts includes organization histories, minutes of regular, executive board and past presidents meetings, membership applications that contain a lot of genealogical details, scrapbooks for the Unit, two scrapbooks about the 1927 Drill Team Paris tour by Zella Dee Cox and Edith Lucier, and photographs by Dissette, Free and other non-local studios.
Copies of unit newsletters: "Soldier & Citizen" 1954-2014 & "The Bugler" 2002-2011.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-2016
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
In August 1918 a Soldiers' Mothers' Club was formed in Davenport with forty-five members. This club held meetings twice a month. As soon as the Legion decided to have an Auxiliary, the Commander called a meeting. They applied for and were granted a Charter in 1920 to be known as the Women's Auxiliary Unit of Davenport Post No. 26. Membership in the unit was open to the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters [by birth or by law] of all men and women who were in the Military and Naval Service of the United States any time between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918 and who died in line of duty or after honorable discharge and prior to November 11, 1920.
American Legion Unit 26 of Davenport donated these items after a fire burned down their longtime Legion home at Snug Harbor. Their new facility didn't have enough space for these items. Some records were destroyed in the fire but the majority were saved.
Extent
15.01 Linear Feet (in 25 boxes of various sizes and 1 wrapped picture in frame. )
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Range 38 Section 1 and Range 41 Section 1
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
Physical Description
good-some water damage to minutes, but readable; some water damage to photos
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center Repository
321 Main Street
Davenport IA 52801-1490 United States
specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com