New York State War Council Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection General Correspondence

Arranged roughly by subject or correspondent, and then by reverse chronological order.

This series illustrates the Committee's efforts in developing child care committees, assisting committees in surveying their needs, providing services and equipment for child care initiatives across the state, and obtaining State and federal funding for child care services during the Second World War. Material in the series includes: correspondence, applications for grants, expenditures, budgets, and pamphlets and publications produced by the Committee.

The series documents the appointment of individual teachers, the financing and administration of federal grants, the administration and operation of local facilities, and statistical results, arranged by county, regarding mothers employed or seeking employment in war work. Discussions in the correspondence illuminate such issues as the role of the state in the aid and maintenance of parochial institutions, offers of cooperation from other institutions and agencies, and continuation of child care programs after the Second World War.

This series was transferred to the State Archives from the State Library in 1978 and was accessioned during June 2002.

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