COLLECTION INFORMATION FORM

PRELIM 1. Catalog No. S2383

X FINAL 2. Accession No. 2307

NORTHEAST MINNESOTA HISTORICAL CENTER

3. COLLECTION TITLE: American Legion Auxiliary, Unit #517, 125th Field Artillery. Auxiliary Records.

and

INCLUSIVE DATES: 1920-1967

4. DONOR (name & address): Veterans' Office, St. Louis County Courthouse.

5. Date Received: June, 1978

6. Restrictions: none

7. No. of Boxes: 2

8. No. of Vol. (in boxes): 4

9. Linear Inches or Feet: 1.75 ft.

10. No. of Vol. (outside boxes):

11. Number of Items (Small Collection):

12. Donor Agreement Form Signed (date):

ABSTRACT SUMMARY OF COLLECTION

The 125th Field Artillery Auxiliary is an organization of wives, sisters, and daughters of any man in the service of our country. They meet nine times a year. Most of their activities center on serving the veteran and promoting Americanism. These activities include hospital visits, luncheons, and poppy sales.

This collection includes: unit constitution, newsletters, applications for membership, Emergency Service Questionnaire, citations, Unit History, minutes, newspaper clippings, blue books, financial records, correspondence, manual of ceremonies, annual reports, poppy booklet, unit plays, historical pageant poster, two early photographs of the bugle corps, and membership records. It also contains finance records, membership records, minutes, correspondence and newspaper clippings for MOM's (Mothers of Men in Action), a club which grew from the Auxiliary.

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These records were originally kept in the war memorial room of the St. Louis County Courthouse. In the 1970's, due to the inactivity of Duluth area Veterans' organizations, these records were moved to the attic of the courthouse. In 1978, the St. Louis County Historical Society was contacted by Courthouse employees who requested that these records be removed. St. Louis County Historical Society employees transported the records to the Northeast Minnesota Historical Center in June, 1978.

Box List

Box Folder Description

1 1 Newsletters

1 2 Applications for Membership

1 3 Emergency Voluntary Service Questionnaire

1 4 Citations

1 5 Poppy Day; 1955

1 6 Unit History

1 7 Minutes (Oct. 4, 1946 - June 4, 1954) including membership; minutes - city rehabilitation meeting

1 8 Newspaper Clippings

1 9 Blue Books (1948-1949; 1951-1952)

1 10 MOM's Club [newspaper clippings, finance records (Jan. 1942 - Dec. 1950) ; minutes (3/21/1948 - 10/22/1956); membership 1946; minutes 3/23/1964]

1 11 Constitution and Bylaws Rules (Past Presidents Club)

1 12 Finance and Correspondence

1 13 Photographs

1 Cash Book; includes members and some addresses

1 Minutes, 1934-1938

1 Hand Written Minutes; June 13, 1938- Sept. 6, 1946 (also includes Membership dues; Roll Call; Members and addresses; and Hostess for the Meeting)

1 MOM'a meeting Minutes; Nov 12, 1956 - Feb. 24, 1964 (also contains a membership list in the back)

1 A box containing all members of MOM's (?)

2 1 A Poster for the North Star Festival and Historic Pageant; Aug. 18- 21, 1920

2 1 Poppy Booklet of the American Legion Auxiliary

2 1 Digest of the Service Record of the American Legion Auxiliary; 1920-1953

2 Twenty-eighth Annual Dinner: Saturday, March 22, 1952

2 1 Manual of Ceremonies of American Legion Auxiliary, April, 1952

2 1 Americanism Commission Program, 1953-1954

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Box Folder

2 1 Twenty-three years of American Legion Auxiliary, 125th Field Auxiliary, 1953

2 2 Annual Reports (Department of Minnesota) on American Legion Auxiliary, 1947-1948

2 2 Annual Reports on American Legion Auxiliary; Centennial, 1849- 1949

2 2 Annual Reports on American Legion Auxiliary, 1951-1952

2 2 Annual Reports on American Legion Auxiliary, 1952-1953

2 3 American Legion Auxiliary; Veteran Made Poppies sign

2 3 Program for the 23rd Birthday party; American Legion Auxiliary, 125th Field Artillery.

2 4 Radio Broadcast script for American Legion Auxiliary, Our American Mothers

2 4 Radio Broadcast script for American Legion Auxiliary, To Serve

the Living.

2 4 Radio Broadcast script for American Legion Auxiliary, "The 'Me'

in Americanism"

2 4 Radio Broadcast script for American Legion Auxiliary, "These Men

Are Ours"