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Language
English
Abstract
Copy of Congressional resolution establishing Mother's Day and biographical sketches about the holiday's founder, Anna Jarvis.
Also programs of Mother's Day observances from the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church of Grafton, later the International
Shrine to Motherhood, where the holiday was founded. Many of these programs contain historical sketches of the holiday and
its founder. There is a program and facsimiles of the first observance.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Mother's Day - Anna Jarvis, A&M 1358, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.