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Displaying 87 Finding Aids
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
- Director's organization and responsibilities memoranda
Series Number
- A4335
Summary
- This series contains memoranda outlining the Office of Civilian Mobilization's (OCM) organization and the execution of its duty to coordinate volunteers involved in home front activities. The memoranda are directed to local war councils and the State War Council. Those sent to the local organizations interpret regulations, delineate responsibilities, and set goals for future work. Those sent to the State War Council report on the OCM's progress and include financial and personnel information.
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
- Hospital staff draft status classification and recruit screening files
Series Number
- A4284
Summary
- In conjunction with, and under the auspices of, the War Council, the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene assisted with various wartime mental health-related tasks during World War II; primarily, it conducted psychological screening of recruits for the Selective Service. This series contains records detailing the department's work in the screenings, in addition to correspondence and memoranda between staff relating to the department's efforts to prevent its hospital personnel from being drafted by classifying them as essential to operations.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- National defense and civilian services cooperative activities programs coordination files
Series Number
- A4326
Summary
- This series contains correspondence and publications created during cooperative efforts between the Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) and state agencies and other organizations in order to facilitate exchange of information and coordination of programs. The OCM was responsible for coordinating volunteer participation to promote civilian defense and social activities. Topics covered include: education; national defense; recreation; health (Red Cross); and veterans.
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
- Governor's correspondence with citizens on war issues
Series Number
- A4291
Summary
- This series contains correspondence from New York citizens to the Governor requesting assistance with war-related concerns, including draft board issues and problems; requests for exemptions from rationing; matters relating to home front activities such as civil defense; and family military concerns. The Governor, the nominal head of the War Council, responded as part of his role as the liaison between the public and the government. A copy of his (or an assistant's) reply often is attached to the correspondence.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Defense digests and official bulletins
Series Number
- A4285
Summary
- This series contains issues of the Defense Digest, initially published by the New York State Council of Defense, and retitled New York State War Council Official Bulletins in July 1942, when the Council's Office of War Information took over publication. Throughout format and publisher changes, similar issues were covered to keep council branches informed of each subgroup's activities: salvage collection, evacuation plans, vocational training, health field activities, recruitment, volunteer activities, civil defense issues, labor/work force issues, and rationing.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Division of Public Relations
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Directives to local war councils
Series Number
- A4333
Summary
- This series contains memoranda directing, promoting, and explaining the Office of Civilian Mobilization's (OCM) home front activities to local war councils. The OCM would provide suggestions on organization of events, publicity, and activities, such as: "I Am An American Day"; Block Plan; civil defense; housing; promotional films; rationing; recreation; salvage; and volunteer recruitment and training.
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
- 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
- New York City regional office administration and correspondence files
Series Number
- A4306
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, pamphlets, and other materials documenting the activities which promoted physical fitness in one region supervised by the Office of Physical Fitness. The records of New York City Regional Supervisor Boris Von Arnold and Ethel T. Kohlberg, Principal Supervisor, Women's Industrial Program, constitute the bulk of this series. Information on women's exercises and activities is featured throughout the series.
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
- Correspondence with local war councils and volunteer agencies
Series Number
- A3084
Summary
- This series contains Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) correspondence relating to the organization and coordination of community services by local war councils and volunteer agencies. The OCM also encouraged local agencies supported recreation activities to the prevent juvenile delinquency and maintaining morale; recruited women to work in defense industries and agriculture; promoted child care for those who needed the service; and encouraged pre-induction activities to help young men make the transition from civilian to soldier.
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
- Resolutions
Series Number
- A3085
Summary
- This series contains resolutions issued by the War Council (and its predecessor, the Council of Defense) as part of its mandate to coordinate war time needs. The resolutions cover a range of topics including: appointments to council offices; work of special committees; budget requests to the legislature; allocation of funds to various programs; civil defense issues (including National Guard matters); and changes to and rescindment of resolutions.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- War information publications file
Series Number
- A3091
Summary
- This series consists of printed annual and special reports, handbooks, pamphlets, posters and training materials issued by state and federal agencies involved in the home front effort. The publications provide civilians with information on numerous war related issues, and deal with a wide range of social and economic issues relating to war efforts underway. Subjects included are: civil defense; commerce; discrimination in employment; economics; education; emergency training; health and nutrition; job recruitment; labor; nursing; physical education; rationing; and war training.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Program coordination meeting and conference agendas, minutes, and correspondence
Series Number
- A4339
Summary
- This series contains materials documenting the meetings of the Office of Civilian Mobilization wherein its organization and responsibilities were determined. Early meetings held in conjunction with other War Council agencies determined areas of program responsibility between the various organizations; later, regional meetings were held among local war councils to coordinate such activities as nursing recruitment, material conservation, and youth programs.
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
- Rationed resources coordination correspondence
Series Number
- A4313
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between the Bureau of Rationing and state agencies and local boards. The Bureau of Rationing was established to act as a liaison between the federal government's rationing program and local rationing boards. The correspondence details the procedures and requirements of the bureau in its efforts to coordinate rationing procedures. Much of the material documents appeals concerning automobile rationing decisions, but information on coffee, gasoline, rubber, shoes, sugar, and tires is also found.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Bureau of Rationing
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Requisitions for state physical fitness certificates
Series Number
- A4363
Summary
- This series contains requisition forms from junior and senior high schools to the Office of Physical Fitness listing the names of the students who should receive physical fitness certificates. Information regarding male and female students' abilities in various sports and activities such as gymnastics, track and field events, and water sports is recorded.
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
- School bus regulation exemption request correspondence
Series Number
- A4405
Summary
- As part of its duty to promote and ensure the efficient use of transportation resources, the War Transportation Committee (WTC) strictly limited school bus purchases and reviewed school bus usage to ensure that buses were employed according to regulations. This series contains correspondence between the WTC and local schools in which exemptions to school bus regulations were requested. The WTC's response and an explanation for its decision are usually found with each request.
Creator
- New York State War Council. War Transportation Committee
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Food and drug chemists institute organization files
Series Number
- A4376
Summary
- This series contains information from two institutes, arranged by the Office of War Training, to teach food and drug professionals about threats to food and drug supplies (contamination, spoilage, improper labelling, etc.). The series contains a transcript of the first two days of the first institute, and registration forms from the second institute. Also found is routine correspondence detailing speakers' arrangements, meeting places, and other organizational details of the two institutes.
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
- Complaint correspondence file
Series Number
- A4404
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between the War Transportation Committee (WTC) and its subordinate organizations detailing complaints and problems regarding WTC programs and decisions, and documenting the committee's efforts to enforce both state and federal war-time energy and resource regulations. Issues include: charter bus regulation; school bus routes; gasoline ration allotment; and continuation of routes. Complaints include: parental concerns with bus stop proximity to homes; children's right to ride the school bus; gasoline rationing inequities; and cancellation of charter bus routes.
Creator
- New York State War Council. War Transportation Committee
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.