Home front goals promotion and instruction audio-visual materials
Series Number
A4392
Summary
These instructional materials, including filmstrips, photographs, slides, posters, and phonograph records, were created to inform the public about home front goals during the Second World War. Goals of the council are represented, such as driver safety and automobile conservation; home canning; fighting discrimination in employment; civil defense; fire defense training; and communal and emergency feeding plans.
Creator
New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
This correspondence documents the cooperative efforts of the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM), state and federal agencies, and private organizations as they sought to to coordinate, publicize, and implement programs related to home front activities such as child care, recreation, nutrition, health care, agriculture, and education. This effort was in response to manpower shortages, and because the continuation of volunteer services was crucial to the overall well-being of New Yorkers.
Creator
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Procedure establishment letters from the federal Office of Civilian Defense
Series Number
A4334
Summary
This series contains letters sent from the United States Office of Civilian Defense to the New York State Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) to establish volunteer activities and to ensure that programs were administered in accordance with federal mandates. The letters discuss: anti-sabotage activities; awards; blackouts; Block Plan; fingerprinting of civil defense volunteers; gas attacks; identification cards; incendiary and anti-personnel bombing; insignia standards; selection of civil defense trainees; and war plant protection.
Creator
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
War Council Committee on Fire Defense correspondence, bulletins and minutes
Series Number
A4271
Summary
This series contains files pertaining to the War Council Committee on Fire Defense's efforts to establish a plan to organize a state-wide administrative framework that would allow for quick and efficient mobilization of firemen, fire equipment and fire-fighting resources of the state in times of war emergencies. The series contains correspondence, minutes, bulletins, press releases, fire equipment lists, and digital images of the original county resource inventory.
Creator
New York State War Council. Committee on Fire Defense
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
War Council executive secretary's correspondence with civil defense administrators
Series Number
A4362
Summary
This series contains correspondence between Thomas L. J. Corcoran, the War Council's Executive Secretary, and various state and federal administrators who coordinated civil defense work. Topics covered include: air raids; auxiliary police and fire fighters; blackouts; Civil Air Patrol; information distribution; and fire fighting. A large number of correspondence referral forms kept by Corcoran about letters forwarded to the director of the New York State War Council's Office of Civilian Protection (OCP) are also found.
Creator
New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Correspondence with the federal Office of Civilian Defense
Series Number
A4409
Summary
This series documents the Office of Civilian Protection's work in coordinating defense preparations. It contains correspondence, pamphlets, bulletins, manuals, and posters sent between the Office of Civilian Protection and the federal Office of Civilian Defense. Topics include: air raids; blackouts; evacuation plans and procedures; fire defense; industrial plant protection; insignia for volunteers; medical contingencies; practice drills; rescue squads; traffic control; and volunteer training and appraisal.
Creator
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Training and inquiry response correspondence files
Series Number
A4391
Summary
This series details the work of F. Wellington Gilcreas, appointed State Gas Consultant following world events that pointed to serious consideration of a gas attack against the United States. Included in the series are correspondence, memoranda, releases, publications, and bulletins detailing Gilcreas's work with training programs and local war councils to instruct individuals on the proper response to enemy gas attacks. Material containing technical details regarding various types of gases used in war is also included.
Creator
New York State War Council. State Gas Consultant
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
This series documents the Office of Civilian Protection's (OCP) efforts to establish and monitor adequate civil defense measures for New York State. The series includes correspondence with local war councils documenting personnel, activities, and equipment inventory; monthly reports from deputy directors on local war councils' civil defense organization and status; and bulletins, regulations, and memoranda from the OCP's director to local civil defense directors.
Creator
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.