Research


Scope and Content Note

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, annual reports, field reports, pamphlets, tests, and speeches and lectures relating to the office's work training civilians for possible war time emergencies. Programs represented in this series include fire fighting and auxiliary police training, school bus drivers training, gas identification and response training, and public service training.

Much of this series details routine aspects of the programs (travel, attendance reports, payroll, requests for materials, and personnel issues). Other materials, such as annual and field reports relating to the instructors' supervisors and the supervisors' staff, document activities, plans, goals, and policies of the programs. Pamphlets, speeches, and tests detail the information which the office wished to convey in the training programs.