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New York State War Council War Information Service Public Relations Coordination Files


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

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.
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Public relations coordination files
Quantity:

0.5 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1943-1944
Series Number:
A4315

Arrangement

Arranged by subject.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, and a small amount of posters, broadsides, and pamphlets detailing several aspects of the service's coordination of public relations for the War Council.

The series includes: "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, containing information on car pooling and tire rationing publicity strategies, in addition to some posters and broadsides; correspondence with other agencies (War Nutrition and Emergency Food Commission in particular); some director's material, possibly passed on to assistants for handling; discussions of the "Sappy and Silly Sabotire" comic strip, which was used to promote tire and automobile rationing; internal letters and memoranda regarding the office routine; and other related documents including pamphlets for promoting other War Council activities.

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Processing Information

This series was originally accessioned as box 108 of old collection #77, accession -71.

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