Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Abstract:
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..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
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This series contains lecture transcripts, syllabi, correspondence, memoranda, maps, and a test with answer key documenting the Office of Civilian Protection's two-day training institutes held statewide to instruct war industry plant managers in basic defense procedures to avoid damage from enemy attacks. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
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This series contains four annual reports of the New York State War Council and a report from the War Council's predecessor, the Council of Defense, which were assembled and circulated in order to inform all concerned parties of the war work undertaken by the council's many agencies. These reports explain .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Division of Public Relations
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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, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
Abstract:
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; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
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Series:
A4387
Dates:
1942-1944
Abstract:
This series contains carbon copies of monthly report forms compiled by the state and local war councils. The state and local report forms are both entitled "Civilian Defense Report," and include volunteer participation information and statistics. The forms were sent to the Office of Civilian Protection, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
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Series:
A4346
Dates:
1941-1945
Abstract:
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..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
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Series:
A4360
Dates:
1941-1942
Abstract:
This series contains correspondence, telegrams, reports, and various charts exchanged between the Lieutenant Governor, as State War Plan Coordinator; , local and federal War Council agencies; and private organizations and individuals involved in the war effort. Topics and agencies documented include: .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
Abstract:
This series contains records from a wide array of War Council agencies detailing major events in the agencies' formation, the execution of their duties, or appointment of officers. They were apparently culled from other records to document significant aspects of the council's history. Document types .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of War Training
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Series:
A4375
Dates:
1943-1944
Abstract:
The Civilian Defense Driver Corps was formed to train instructors in emergency driving techniques in order to provide civil defense organizations with drivers capable of transporting essential supplies, evacuating children, or ferrying civil defense units. This series contains correspondence and instructional .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
Abstract:
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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
Abstract:
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; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. War Information Service
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This series contains press releases from the War Information Service to inform various media about accomplishments of War Council agencies and members. Topics covered include: agriculture, health, and nutrition issues; civil defense; nursing; salvage; and war transportation..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization
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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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State War Council
Abstract:
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, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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