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Displaying 19 Finding Aids
Title
- 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.
Title
- Instructive releases sent to local salvage committees
Series Number
- A4350
Summary
- This series contains releases from the Salvage Division to city and county salvage committees intended to inform and motivate volunteers, with sections devoted to specific items such as waste fat, tin, paper, and scrap metal. Included are collection figures, directions, quotations, national program descriptions, and indications of how these materials were used in the war effort. Also contained are brief letters to all city and county salvage committee chairmen to inform them of salvage needs and to advise on programs.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Salvage Division
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Official bulletin coordination files
Series Number
- A4316
Summary
- This series contains correspondence and mailing lists related to the publication of the War Council's Official Bulletin, published to keep informed all War Council agencies, local war councils, and other agencies involved in war work. Records from the War Information Service director and the Official Bulletin's editor contain the minutia of running a monthly publication. The majority of the files contain mailing lists and subscribers' correspondence, which provide information on the changing personnel of local war councils.
Creator
- New York State War Council. War Information Service
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Recruitment and classification files
Series Number
- A4277
Summary
- This series contains information on the War Council's efforts to attract women to the nursing profession in order to alleviate the acute shortage exacerbated by World War II, and to assist in the recruitment of nurses into the armed services by keeping a roster of nursing personnel. Included are minutes, correspondence, memoranda, monthly reports, press releases, form letters, and publicity materials. Classification forms collected by the Procurement and Assignment Committee contain a wealth of demographic data.
Creator
- United States. War Industries Board
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
- Empire State Games posters
Series Number
- 22495
Summary
- Formerly a program of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the Empire State Games are conducted as a series of annual Olympic-style competitions for amateur athletes from all over New York State. This series consists of twelve professional quality posters designed to publicize the Empire State Games.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Theatre Institute posters, playbills, and brochures
Series Number
- 22464
Summary
- This series includes publicity material for most performances produced by the New York State Theatre Institute (NYSTI) and its predecessor bodies, the Empire State Youth Theatre Institute (ESYTI) (1974-1982) and the Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts (ESIPA) (1982-1992). The records consist of high-quality color posters, playbills, and general publicity brochures.
Creator
- New York State Theatre Institute
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Director's defense preparedness coordination correspondence
Series Number
- A4305
Summary
- This series documents the Director of the Office of Civilian Protection's work in coordinating defense preparations. Contained in the series are correspondence, pamphlets, and posters sent between the director and local, state, and federal organizations involved in civil defense. Topics covered by the records include: air raids; blackouts; evacuation plans and procedures; insignia for volunteers; and medical contingencies.
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
- Victory Book Campaign files
Series Number
- A2012
Summary
- The Victory Book Campaign was a nationwide effort to collect books for members of the armed forces. New York State's participation in the Victory Book Campaign was coordinated by the Bureau of Library Extension. These records relate to the acquisition, shipping, and distribution of books; publicity for the program; compilation of program statistics; and American finances. Included are correspondence, press releases, texts of radio programs and announcements, clippings, instruction manuals, statistical reports, fiscal records, fliers, posters, and maps.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Adult Education and Library Extension
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
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities investigation files
Series Number
- L0038
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memorandums, and reports on individuals and organizations investigated by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk. The records pertain to meetings, organizational activities, and educational programs of the Russian Soviet Bureau, the Socialist Party, the Bolsheviks, the Niagara Frontier Defense League, and other groups and organizations.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Education Department Office of Educational Television and Public Broadcasting poster files
Series Number
- B2642
Summary
- This series consists of posters promoting the programs of the Office of Educational Television and Public Broadcasting. These posters were used to publicize educational television series, including <emph render="italic">New York Learns</emph> and <emph render="italic">Inquiry</emph>, that were created through the collaboration of local public television stations and the State Education Department.
Creator
- Newark State School (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this 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
- Interpretive poster of William de Leftwich Dodge murals
Series Number
- B1865
Summary
- This series consists of a poster produced by the Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol reproducing the wall and ceiling murals in the Governor's Reception Room. Accompanying the reproduction is a key that provides detailed explanations and interpretations of each of the individual murals. These murals depict major battles, naval engagements, and military leaders. Also included is an image of the Unknown Soldier.
Creator
- Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- 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.
Title
- Publicity files regarding the 1980 Winter Olympics
Series Number
- 14221
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence and memorandums; press releases and newspaper clippings; legislative proposals; reports and studies; publications and brochures; and photographs and posters documenting the Department of Commerce's role in hosting the 1980 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Commerce
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Publicity files
Series Number
- A4400
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, broadsides, posters, and newspaper clippings documenting the War Transportation Committee's efforts to promote the conservation of transportation resources. The correspondence is primarily between the committee and the War Council's public relations agency, the War Information Service, and other organizations, federal and private, involved in the war effort. Also found is information on the "Double-up" sticker program, in which cars that participated in car pools or group rides received special window stickers.
Creator
- New York State War Council. War Transportation Committee
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Assistant to the state war plans coordinator's information and coordination files
Series Number
- A4346
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, bulletins, posters, orders to subordinate agencies and local war councils, reports on war programs, draft legislation, and official releases relating to coordination of War Council activities with local, state, and federal agencies.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.