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Allegany County women in World War I

Collection Name

Allegany County Women's History

About

Military (ACWH)

Media Items

Yellow button with red letters from War Garden Association 1918
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ItemID
acwh096
IDEntry
2814
Creator
Text - Stegmaier, Dean, Kershaw, and Wiseman.
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Subject
Allegany County Maryland--Biography
Allegany County Maryland--Women
Coverage
Allegany County, Maryland

In addition to 99 local nurses going off to WWI in 1917, the local Women’s Preparedness Committee noted that women were fast taking their place in all walks of life including working in most of the local industries as well as in the creation of war gardens to increase the flow of food overseas. African-American women organized their own separate clubs and reported 111 war gardens in Cumberland alone by November 1917.

Notes

From Allegany County – A History, Stegmaier, Dean, Kershaw and Wiseman.

The button is the Allegany County War Garden Association membership button, World War I, 1918. It is from the collection of Albert and Angela Feldstein.