Relief records, 1905-1965.

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Relief records, 1905-1965.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584796

Records of relief payments to veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I, or their survivors, and including biographical data (1905-1934); other scattered records on relief applications (1940s-1965); and receipt books (1929-1932) and monthly reports (1959-1961) of the Woman's Relief Corps.

6.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes, 2 partial boxes, 6 v. shelved loose).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6777188

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Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...