English: Title: Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, the International Mother's Day Shrine. Grafton, West Virginia

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; The town claims to have held the nation's first Mother's Day observance as the culmination of efforts by local resident Anna Jarvis. Her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, was a social activist, founder of Mothers' Day Work Clubs, and a unifying force within her community during the American Civil War. Mother's Day was proclaimed a national holiday in 1914 by President Woodrow Wilson.