Scope and Content Note
This series documents how the activities of the Salvage Division were directed, coordinated, and informed by the United States War Production Board (WPB).
The series includes: federal releases describing what materials were to be salvaged, directing the state division on how to proceed with salvage campaigns, and listing available promotional materials; correspondence between the Salvage Division and the WPB's Washington and regional New York City office regarding questions of policy, the resolution of problems, and the ordering of promotional materials; bulletins from the WPB to field executives detailing administrative procedures and policies on issues such as travel authorization, salaries, and office supplies; bulletins and newsletters about salvage efforts across the nation intended for general audiences; bulletins issued by the WPB's General Salvage Section, Bureau of Industrial Conservation to state chairmen and executive secretaries across the nation to keep them informed of salvage procedures;
index for bulletins 1 through 369 (only bulletins 2 through 200 are included in the series); Manual of Administrative Instructions sent to all executives of the WPB, and sections of another WPB manual regarding the establishment, abolition, and restructuring of policies, procedures, and organization; promotional and instructional materials such as posters, flyers, booklets, newspaper clippings, print advertising mats, and a folder of radio and play scripts; blue print of a machine used to cut and process tin cans, with photographs and negatives of workers operating the device; and a General Dwight D. Eisenhower Award medal (filed under "General MacArthur") which was presented by the WPB to individual Boy Scouts for outstanding paper collection efforts.