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Title
- General correspondence
Series Number
- A3099
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between the War Council, individuals, agencies, and organizations involved in the coordination of war work. Letters in this series document administrative functions and communications of the War Council during the Second World War. Also included are pamphlets, manuals, applications, regulations, contracts, and periodical material. Topics include agriculture, wartime rationing and conservation, proposals for defense inventions from individuals, air raids, mayors and metropolitan areas.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
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
- Petitions to the attorney general to restrict access to defense installations
Series Number
- A4288
Summary
- This series contains petitions and supporting materials from defense installations to the War Council (and its predecessor, the Council of Defense) requesting that certain streets adjacent to the defense facilities be closed to public access, or that signs be posted restricting access to areas surrounding facilities. Factories involved in supplying war materials requested the limits in order to prevent monitoring of shipments and deliveries, while other facilities such as water and power plants sought to protect themselves from sabotage.
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
- 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
- New York National Guard service cards
Series Number
- B2001
Summary
- This series consists of summary service records of members of New York National Guard units. Information typically includes name, date of birth, place of birth, home address, date of enlistment, unit enlisted into, date of separation, how separated (honorable discharge, etc.), and dates of reenlistment.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of Military and Naval Affairs
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York Guard service cards and enlistment records
Series Number
- B2000
Summary
- The New York Guard was created and later reactivated as a state defense force to replace the New York National Guard when the latter was mobilized into federal service during the two world wars. This series consists of service record cards for veterans of the New York Guard. Information varies but minimally includes name, address, date of enlistment, company, and regiment.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of Military and Naval Affairs
Access Restrictions
- Microfilm roll no. 61 is partially restricted to protect personal privacy (medical reports).