Record Series and Collections

1951 - 1972

1928 - 1945

The Emblem Division handled the acquisition and distribution of the official American legion emblem on such items as buttons, lapel pins, flags, plaques and trophies for each department. This series includes the correspondence and general records of ...

1927 - 1945

This series is divided into six sub-series, Film, National Publicity Division, Posters, Radio, Safety Campaign, and Speakers Bureau. The American Legion Film Service encouraged local Posts to show films to help increase their membership. The National ...

1921 - 1941

This series has been divided into four sub-series, Bulletins, Forward Observation Post, The Dispatch Rider, and Miscellaneous. The Bulletins were on a variety of topics including membership, policy, and upcoming events. Forward Observation Post was ...

1927 - 2007

This series is divided into six sub-series, Department Commanders and Adjutants Conference, North Carolina Department Convention, National Convention, Post Officers Conference, Spring and Fall Conferences, and Washington Conferences. The records include ...

1927 - 2001

This series consists of seven sub-series, Americanism, Child Welfare, Executive, Department Legislative, National Legislative, Department Rehabilitation, and National Rehabilitation. A description of each committee is included with that sub-series. This ...

1928 - 1944

This series is divided into Audits, Correspondence, and Financial Statements of the Department.

1920 - 1945

This series has been divided into Charters, Membership, and Purchasing. Charters includes lists of posts with temporary and permanent charters in 1926. Membership includes correspondence, membership reports, membership lists, and general records ...

1923 - 1987

This series consists of twenty-one sub-series, American Legion Magazine, Citizen Military Training Camp, Civilian Conservation Corps, Civilian Defense, Committee Chairmen, Department Officers, Districts, Divisions, Drum and Bugle Corps, Federal ...

1926 - 1944

This series includes the minutes from the Department Annual Conventions, the Department Executive Committee meetings, and the National Executive Committee meetings. Between Department Conventions, the administrative power of each Department was vested ...

1921 - 1945

This series includes Community Service Reports, Flood Relief Reports, Lists of Posts, New Post Officers, Questionnaires, War and Defense Activity Reports, and the General Records of each post. The local units of the Department are called Posts. No Post ...

1927 - 1945

The American Legion Auxiliary had as its members the wives, mothers, and sisters of veterans in the World War. On July 25, 1921, Commander Hogue issued an official call for the First Annual Convention of the Auxiliary to meet at Hendersonville on August ...

1925 - 1945

This series includes the correspondence and general records of seventeen standing committees: Aeronautics, Education of World War Orphans, Emergency Relief, Employment, Fédération Interalliée Des Anciens Combattants (FIDAC), Graves Registration, ...

1932

This series contains two scrapbooks from 1932 that contain photographs, correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous memorabilia. These may have been created by or for Thomas W. Bird, former Department Commander from 1921 to 1922. ...

1927 - 1944

This series is divided into three sub-series, Constitution and By-Laws, Miscellaneous, and Printed Materials. The Miscellaneous sub-series is then further divided into Blank Forms and Letterheads, Important Papers, and Proclamation. Printed Materials is ...