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New York State Civil Defense Commission

 

 

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The bulk of this series contains correspondence, training records, reports, maps, charts, pamphlets, and handbooks that pertain to the simulated radiological situation exercises of the New York State Civil Defense Commission. Most of the correspondence involves the Civil Defense Commission's messages .........

 

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...Military and Naval Affairs in 1973. Scope and Contents The bulk of this series contains correspondence, training records, reports, maps, charts, pamphlets, and handbooks that pertain to the simulated radiological situation exercises of the New York State Civil Defense Commission....

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Civil Defense Commission

 

 

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These motion picture films and audio tapes document activities of the Civil Defense Commission..........

 

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...training exercises conducted by the Commission in 1964, and interviews with Commission managers about the operations of the Commission. The films were created to demonstrate the current practices and ideals advocated by the State in regards to civil defense. Conditions Governing Access There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material. Subjects and Indexing Terms Motion pictures (visual works) Nuclear bomb shelters Fallout shelters Civil defense Emergency management--New York (State) New York (State) Protecting people New York (State). Division of Military...

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Office of Disaster Preparedness

 

 

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This series consists of scrapbooks of original newsprint and photocopies of articles pertaining to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and nuclear evacuation plans of New York State municipalities..........

 

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...New York State municipalities. B2600 Materials are written in: English sheet Scope and Contents This series consists of three scrapbooks of original newsprint and photocopies of articles. The first two scrapbooks contain clippings focusing on the Three Mile Island disaster and are primarily derived from the two main Harrisburg, Pennsylvania newspapers, The Daily Patriot and The Evening News . There are also articles from periodicals across the country reporting the disaster, including the New York Times , the Boston Globe , the Washington Post , and the Miami Herald . The third scrapbook is a mix of newspaper clippings from 1976 to 1982 that primarily highlight the nuclear evacuation plans of New York State municipalities, as well as preparatory exercises and plans to host refugees from other localities struck by nuclear disaster. The articles are derived from periodicals statewide, including the Buffalo Courier-Express and the New York Times , but the majority are from Plattsburgh's Press-Republican . Arrangement Chronological. Conditions Governing Access There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material. Related Materials B2402 Series B2402, New York State Civil Defense Commission Training and Publicity Films and Recordings, contains related records. Subjects and Indexing Terms Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa. ) Pennsylvania Nuclear power plants New York (State) Clippings files Nuclear energy--Government policy--New York (State) Nuclear accidents Newspaper clippings Civil defense Emergency management--New York (State) Nuclear energy New York (State). Department of Transportation New York (State). Division of Military...

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Defense Council

 

 

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This series consists of copies of legislation, organizational charts, requisitions, memoranda, informational circulars, reports, bulletins, minutes, and some correspondence relating to the organization and administration of the New York State Defense Council's war work. Consistent with the council's .........

 

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...New York as the lopsided leader in that category; memoranda circulated to chairs of county home defense committees by the council; minutes of proceedings of a council meeting (March 28, 1918); reports on such topics as military training, aliens, work of the State Food Supply Commission...

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Defense Council

 

 

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The series consists of correspondence files, maintained by Assistant Secretary Frederic E. Foster, relating to general information and functions of the State Defense Council. The bulk of the records consist of of correspondence with civilian relief organizations, patriotic societies, emergency industrial .........

 

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...New York Public Library; pamphlets, bulletins, and copies of addresses or appeals by such groups as the League to Enforce Peace (including its platform), the New York Peace Society, and the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief; a press edition of the "War Information Series" published by the Committee on Public Information in Washington, D.C. ; correspondence between the council and the Charity Organization Society of New York regarding the requirements necessary for inclusion of war relief organizations in bulletins of "Approved War Relief Organizations" produced jointly by the council and the society (copies of the listing also included); messages from the U.S. War Department, including its Commission on Training Camp Activities (on developing community councils), the Office of the Chief Military Censor (on photographing of production plants), and the U.S. Surgeon General (on building a convalescent home, data on disease conditions among troops in the U.S. , and a syllabus to instruct "Drafted Men in the Knowledge and Avoidance of Venereal Diseases"); correspondence from Governor Whitman (to exemption boards on diagnosing tuberculous recruits) and gubernatorial proclamations (on public productivity, support for the Liberty Loan program, and fire and waste prevention during wartime); and copies of President Wilson's war message (April 2, 1917), his reply ("America's Terms of Peace") to Pope Benedict XV's peace note (August 28, 1917), proclamations (on licensure of commodities, Liberty Day, manufacture of explosives, regulation of wartime exports and imports, the state...

 

 

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New York State Archives