Search Results
- IDNO:
- 029185
- Title:
- Ann Reeves Jarvis, the Mother of Mothers' Day
- Description:
- 'Mother of Miss Anna Jarvis the founder of Mother's Day. She taught the Primary Department in Andrews Sunday School for 20 years. She is known as the Mother's Day World Mother. Shortly after the Civil War she expressed a desire that some one, some time, would establish a Mother's Day, and the action of the daughter made it a reality.'
- IDNO:
- 029186
- Title:
- View of East Ronceverte, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029187
- Title:
- Woman and Child with their Automobile, Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920-1925
- IDNO:
- 029188
- Title:
- Memorial Ceremony at Tombstone of Anna Jarvis
- Date:
- 1949/05/08
- Description:
- 'Memorial services held in West Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia, Pa. May 8, 1949 for Miss Anna Jarvis founder Mother's Day. The floral design displayed on top of monument is a contribution from Andrews Methodist Church Grafton, W. Va.'
- IDNO:
- 029189
- Title:
- Filtration Plant, Weston, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029190
- Title:
- View of Elk Creek, Clarksburg, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029191
- Title:
- Anna Jarvis
- Description:
- 'Founded Mother's Day in honor of her mother Mrs. Ann Reeves Jarvis. In May 1914 the United States Congress passed a resolution officially recognizing her as the founder, and at her request designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. This was the anniversary of her mother's death.'
- IDNO:
- 029192
- Title:
- Oakland Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029193
- Title:
- New Webster Springs Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029194
- Title:
- Public School, East Main Street, Buckhannon, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1905-1925
- IDNO:
- 029195
- Title:
- Group Portrait of Women Students, Hilltop at A.F.S., Staunton, Virginia
- Date:
- 1884/08/21
- Description:
- A photograph of a large group of girls in front of a building at what appears to be a finishing school.
- IDNO:
- 029196
- Title:
- View from Loudoun Heights of Harpers Ferry and Bolivar Heights, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1901/11