CreatorHubert WorkDescriptionThis letter from Hubert Work, the First Assistant Postmaster General, authorizes the Jerome postmaster to post information publicizing an international Memorial Day to benefit the American and French Children's League. Red poppies were crafted by children and mothers who suffered during the first world war and sold to help fund medical care of the League. The Post Office Department wanted to promote this event, advising "all loyal Americans" to wear the flower "in honor of their fellow countrymen who so heroically sacrificed their lives to the cause of liberty and now rest beneath the poppy-carpeted battlefields of France." The tradition of the red poppy carries on today. It is the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.SubjectPost Office ArchivesDate Original1921-05-14Date Range1920s (1920-1929)TypeTextOriginal FormatDocuments (other)LanguageEnglishContributing InstitutionJerome Historical SocietyCollectionJerome Postal HistoryRights StatementContact Postal History Foundation http://www.postalhistoryfoundation.org/
Acquisition NotePostal History FoundationDate Digitized2011Digital FormatPDF
Hubert Work, Poppies for the American and French Children's League. Arizona Memory Project, accessed 12/11/2024, https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/107967