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Title

World War II home front activity information preservation file

Series Number

A4297

Summary

This series contains publications about home front activities such as salvage, child care, education, and collection and preservation of war records. These records were kept as part of the organization's efforts to document the war effort on the home front. The series includes a nearly complete run of the <emph render="italic">Yonkers Home News</emph>, several issues of the <emph render="italic">Ossining Courier</emph>, and a pamphlet entitled "Organizing Your Community For War Records Work," published by the National Jewish Welfare Board.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Division of Records

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Home front information publications file

Series Number

A4287

Summary

This series consists of publications from national, state (including other War Council agencies), and private organizations involved in war work collected by the Office of War Information to assist the office when informing citizens about war-related activities on the home front. Pamphlets, booklets, brochures, and other printed material about salvage drives, civil defense issues, rationing, agricultural practices, war bond drives, cooking and homemaking, morale issues, and first aid, among other topics, are found.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Division of Public Relations

Title

War Council Committee on Discrimination in Employment minutes and investigations files

Series Number

A4278

Summary

In March 1941, the Committee on Discrimination in Employment was formed for the purpose of encouraging complete utilization in defense work of all individuals without consideration of race, color, creed, or national origin. This series contains minutes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, press releases, pamphlets, and a procedures manual for field workers (Labor Discrimination Representatives), all of which document the committee's efforts to investigate and discourage discrimination and promote fair employment practices.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Committee on Discrimination in Employment

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this 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

History of Westchester County defense and war councils

Series Number

A4292

Summary

The volumes which comprise this series are condensed from the 31-volume complete version kept in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, County Court House, in White Plains, New York. These volumes were presented to the New York State War Council in 1946. The condensed version and the larger complete history were compiled to document the efforts of this local War Council. Included are: activities and sub-organizations of the council; bulletins; special orders; general orders; regulations; and circulars.

Creator

• New York State War Council

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Field directors' local war council master reports

Series Number

A4331

Summary

This series contains 11-page report forms completed by field directors (also called field representatives) for each local war council detailing their personnel, organization, and operations. Filed only once, these forms were used by the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) to examine local councils to ensure they operated as well as possible and according to the State War Council's standards. Each form lists the local war council's address, territory, and population, and provides detailed information on the council and the OCM divisions operating in the council.

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

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

Local war councils newspaper clippings file

Series Number

A4329

Summary

This series contains clippings collected by the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) documenting the activities of local war councils in home front programs; civil defense work; and sometimes the communities' war-related activities such as war plant production. Typical subjects found in this series include: Block Plan (in which volunteers promoted OCM activities in their neighborhoods); child care; civil defense; farm labor; first aid; nursing; nutrition; salvage; volunteer recruitment; war training; and women's volunteer activities.

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

Public relations coordination files

Series Number

A4315

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, and a small amount of posters, broadsides, and pamphlets detailing the service's coordination of public relations for the War Council. Included are "clipping summaries" which briefly describe a press release and list the newspapers which carried it; files of Alice Tierney Scanlan, an assistant in the service who worked with the War Transportation Committee; director's material; and discussions of the "Sappy and Silly Sabotire" comic strip, used to promote tire and automobile rationing.

Creator

• New York State War Council. War Information 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

Field representatives' reports and support materials

Series Number

A4368

Summary

This series contains correspondence, field reports, and pamphlet distribution lists held by the director of the Office of Physical Fitness as part of his role to supervise and assist the office's field representatives as they promoted, developed, and assisted the Physical Fitness Program. While much of the material relates to routine office administration, several folders contain field reports or supplemental field reports from field representatives.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of Physical Fitness

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Lists of local war council chairs and officers

Series Number

A4340

Summary

This series contains lists of local war council chairs and officers involved in home front activities related to the Office of Civilian Mobilization. The lists were used by the office to send information to the councils and officers.

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

Correspondence with cooperating businesses, agencies, and individuals

Series Number

A4354

Summary

This series reveals how the Salvage Division coordinated the activities of various businesses, agencies, publicity organizations, schools, waste processors and dealers, and individuals involved in salvage efforts across the State. Included are: letters detailing policies and procedures and describing salvage priorities; congratulatory letters; news releases from United States offices of Price Administration, Defense Transportation, and the regional War Production Board; instructional and promotional materials such as booklets, leaflets, newspaper clippings, advertisement mats, and corporate in-house publications; and travel vouchers.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Salvage Division

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Civil defense issues correspondence with other states

Series Number

A4383

Summary

This series contains material exchanged between the Office of Civilian Protection and other states' civil defense organizations in order to share information on operations, regulations, and issues such as blackouts and airplane spotting. A collection of civil defense newspapers from various states constitutes a large part of the series. Also found are civil defense annual or special reports, newspaper clippings about civil defense activities, and correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets and maps.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Training programs subject files

Series Number

A4382

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, annual reports, field reports, pamphlets, tests, and speeches and lectures relating to the office's work of training civilians for possible war time emergencies. Programs represented in this series include firefighting and auxiliary police training, school bus drivers training, gas identification and response training, and public service training. Much of this series details routine travel, attendance reports, payroll, requests for materials, and personnel issues.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of War Training

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Civilian War Services and Civilian Protection training charts

Series Number

A4341

Summary

This series contains charts enumerating the number of volunteers in each local war council who had been, or were being, trained for specific home front activities. Many, but not all, war councils reported these figures, which the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) collected in order to track local war councils' volunteer needs. Civilian War Services was the OCM division responsible for carrying out many home front programs, while the Office of Civilian Protection worked on civil defense projects.

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

War Council Office of Physical Fitness Director's program administration subject files

Series Number

A4369

Summary

This series documents the activities of the War Council's Office of Physical Fitness and the director's administration of its various programs. While some of the records document office routine, most relate to its programs encouraging physical fitness. Materials include correspondence with related agencies about fitness and health, form letters, expense account forms, address lists, fitness program manuals, certificate cards for various physical activities, meeting minutes, annual and monthly reports, and reports from field representatives.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of Physical Fitness

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

Governor's media releases

Series Number

A4294

Summary

This series contains press releases, bulletins, telegrams, radio address transcripts, correspondence, and meeting minutes released by the Governor Lehman's office to inform the public of War Council (and its predecessor, the Council of Defense) activities. Tthe Governor's involvement in these activities included production rates; appointments to the War Council; wartime housing; security; agriculture; labor disputes and strikes; civil defense; scrap metal drives; tire and gasoline shortages; venereal disease prevention programs; labor shortages; savings bonds; physical fitness; and training programs.

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.