Research

Scope and Content Note

This series primarily contains reports compiled by the federal National Resources Planning Board and the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services detailing conditions in several communities and sent to the State War Council to assist with war planning efforts. Kept by the Assistant to the State War Plans Coordinator, the reports detail each community's conditions in education, health, housing, industry, infrastructure, labor, planning, and transportation, and discuss the impact of the war and military on these areas. Some maps and photographs are reproduced in the reports.

Also found is correspondence and other reports from State War Council field representatives who reported on items discussed in the federal reports, as well as the status of War Council programs such as scrap drives, rationing, civil defense, and war bond drives.

Reports exist for: Buffalo; Elmira; Lewiston; Massena; Mineville; Newburgh; Orangeburg; Poughkeepsie; Rome-Utica-Ilion; Sampson; Schenectady; Sidney; Syracuse; Watertown; and the western portion of Long Island.