Notes
'The National League of Women's Services (NLWS) was a United States civilian volunteer organization formed in January 1917 to provide stateside war services such as feeding, caring for and transporting soldiers, veterans and war workers and was described as "America's largest and most remarkable war emergency organization."
"The National League of Women's Services (NLWS) was established in early 1917 in conjunction with the Red Cross and in anticipation of the US entering the First World War. The League was created from the Women's Department of the National Civic Federation readiness and relief activities and was modelled on a similar group formed in Britain, the Voluntary Aid Detachments, and was formed at the National Security League Congress of Constructive Patriotism."
(Source: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_for_Women's_Service)
The donor, Mrs. J. Bradford Ritter, was author of: The Clarkson-Watson House : a Museum, published by the Germantown Historical Society , 14 pp, paper.