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- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--New York (State) (15)
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Displaying 15 Finding Aids
Title
- Executive secretary's correspondence with local war councils
Series Number
- A4303
Summary
- The bulk of this series consists of correspondence between the War Council's Executive Secretary, coordinator of all Council activities, and various officers of local war councils. The letters dealt with specific issues and not routine contact with local organizations and the Secretary. Topics include a number of home front issues such as: child care; civil defense; civilian mobilization; food preservation; labor issues; physical fitness; rationing; recreation; transportation; war nutrition; and victory gardens.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Abbot Low Moffat's advisory correspondence
Series Number
- A4322
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between War Council member (1941-1943) Abbot Low Moffat, War Council officials, and others involved in state war work relating to many War Council activities which Moffat helped oversee including agricultural aid, child care, civil defense, anti-discrimination work, housing problems, rationing, salvage, and war transportation. Moffat was an assemblyman from New York City (15th District) from 1929 to 1943.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State War Council Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection post-World War II day care center field reports
Series Number
- A4283
Summary
- This series contains post-World War II day care center field reports and correspondence collected by the Committee on Child Care, Development and Protection to monitor the use and needs of day care facilities within the state. These reports provide a description of the child care centers and the extent of State involvement, and contain attendance records for each child care center and lists of demographics of the families who used them. The records reveal the details of operations and problems.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection
Access Restrictions
- Children's attendance records, day care personnel evaluations, and other records may be restricted pursuant to Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law, Art. 6). Use with supervision of archivist.
Title
- Local child care organization and assistance files
Series Number
- A4279
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memoranda, financial records, ledger books, and reports which detail the state and local level operations of the War Council's Committee on Child Care, Development and Protection in organizing and supervising the state's child care facilities. Individual child care centers, their activities, and operations are documented in this series. In addition, a great deal of demographic information is found on the children and families who participated in child care programs.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Education Department war programs correspondence and field reports
Series Number
- A4319
Summary
- This series contains correspondence detailing the Education Department's involvement with war-time programs related to educating citizens on defense matters. Under the auspices of the War Council, the department organized several programs including the Civilian Defense Training Program. A series of pamphlets produced with the Departments of Health, Labor, Mental Hygiene, and Social Welfare for the War Council to educate the general public are included, as are field reports from Education Department personnel who visited statewide war programs.
Creator
- New York (State). Nursing Council for War Service
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State and War Council agencies and local war councils general reporting files
Series Number
- A4301
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, bulletins, newsletters, and posters sent to the War Council's Executive Secretary reporting on activities of agencies involved in war work and local war councils. Many organizations are represented in this series, including: Emergency Food Commission; Nursing Council; Office of Civilian Mobilization; Office of Civilian Protection; and Salvage Division. Topics discussed include: civil defense; child care; housing; labor; rationing; salvage; and education and training.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Governor's office correspondence on war issues
Series Number
- A4295
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between the governor's office. and various agencies and organizations involved in the coordination of work during the Second World War. The correspondence largely addresses the initial set-up and administration of New York State War Council activities. Topics include: civil defense; appointments to draft and draft appeals boards; morale issues; child care; discrimination; war bonds; war contracts; women's roles in the labor pool; farm labor; conservation issues; migrant workers; Fifth Columnists, Japanese-Americans, and "loyal" aliens.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- General correspondence
Series Number
- A3100
Summary
- This series illustrates the Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection'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.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Education Department war programs coordinator's files
Series Number
- A4320
Summary
- This series contains correspondence and other materials relating to Dr. Albert Meredith's role as the Education Department's coordinator of war programs and liaison between the department and the War Council. Topics include: school lunch programs, adult education, citizen unity programs, physical education, child care, agricultural education, home economics education, the Youth Services Council, and the Civilian Defense Training Program. The records include exchanges with both federal and local governments concerning these programs.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Meeting coordination correspondence files
Series Number
- A4309
Summary
- This series contains notices sent by Governor Herbert H. Lehman announcing War Council (and its predecessor, the Council of Defense) meetings, accompanied by replies from council members indicating their intended attendance or absence. These meetings were held at the Governor's home in New York City or at the Executive Mansion in Albany, as part of the coordination efforts of the Governor as chairman of the council. In addition to the correspondence, lists of War Council members and agendas and minutes for some early meetings are also included.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Mayor's Committee on Child Care for Schenectady administrative files
Series Number
- A4282
Summary
- This series illustrates the operation of a local component of the War Council's Committee on Child Care, Development and Protection and its efforts to provide care for the children of working mothers. Material includes correspondence and memoranda, detailed attendance records, budgetary matters, salaries, monthly reports, food cost analysis, and interaction with parents at several child care facilities in Schenectady, New York.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection
Access Restrictions
- Children's attendance records and correspondence with parents regarding children's attendance or behavior are restricted in part pursuant to Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law, Art. 6). Use with supervision of archivist.
Title
- Progress reports of war council and state agencies
Series Number
- A4312
Summary
- This series contains monthly, quarterly, or annual progress reports sent to the State War Plans Coordinator from War Council agencies and state agencies involved in war workThe reports document detail the progress, problems, and plans of the various agencies in such areas as agriculture; child care; citizen morale; civil defense; civilian mobilization; commerce; discrimination in employment; education; health issues; housing; labor; nursing; police training; rationing; salvage; vocational training; war training; and war transportation.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Local war councils' and field representatives' city and county activity reports
Series Number
- A4324
Summary
- This series contains correspondence and memoranda sent to the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) by its field representatives or local war councils reporting on activities, personnel changes, and organizational issues. The OCM used the reports to monitor problems within the local councils. Topics include projected employment needs, women's role in the local labor market, child care needs, nursing recruitment, and volunteer recruitment.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Local war council operating reports
Series Number
- A4330
Summary
- This series contains quarterly operating report forms sent to the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) by local war councils detailing their home front activities, programs, and personnel. Information about the Volunteer Office, Division of Civilian War Services, the Block Plan, and Office of Civilian Protection, among others, is found. Each form lists the local war council's office address, officers, resignations, and appointments.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Local war council and subordinate agencies card file
Series Number
- A4342
Summary
- This series contains index cards recording information about local war councils, and the agencies assisting them with local home front programs. The cards served as a central reference file for quick reference on program status and local program needs. Some cards list local war council officers and often social welfare and agricultural agencies involved with their activities, while other cards contain a brief description of the war's impact on the area.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.