New York State War Council War Information Publications File
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
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Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of printed annual and special reports, handbooks, pamphlets, posters and training materials issued by
state and federal agencies involved in the home front effort. The publications provide civilians with information on numerous
war related issues, and deal with a wide range of social and economic issues relating to war efforts underway. Subjects included
are: civil defense; commerce; discrimination in employment; economics; education; emergency training; health and nutrition;
job recruitment; labor; nursing; physical education; rationing; and war training.
Creator:
Title:
War information publications file
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1929-1945
Bulk Dates:
bulk 1941-1945
Series Number:
A3091
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic or agency publishing material.
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of printed annual and special reports, handbooks, pamphlets, posters and training materials issued by
state and federal agencies involved in the homefront effort. The publications provide civilians with information on numerous
war related issues and deal with a wide range of social and economic issues relating to war efforts underway.
Among the subjects included are: civil defense; commerce; discrimination in employment; economics; education; emergency training;
health and nutrition; job recruitment; labor; nursing; physical education; rationing; and war training.
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Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Folder |
Accretion: A3091-78 |
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Advanced First Aid for Civilian Defense Air Raid Warden Handbook; List of War Council Pamphlets |
1 |
1 |
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Ag. & Markets - Contaminated Foods |
1 |
2 |
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Child Care Committee: Community Programs of Child Care - Bulletin #1; Community Responsibility for Children in Wartime Day
Care; Children of Working Mothers; Guides for Teachers in Children's Play Centers; Hazards to Families When Mothers Work
|
1 |
3 |
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Civilian Defense: Civic Education for National Defense for Out-of-School Youth |
1 |
4 |
|
Civil Defense: a booklet |
1 |
5 |
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Civil Defense: Instructor's Guide Book (For Training Drivers) |
1 |
6 |
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Civilian Defense: Cooper Union Library (Bulletin) |
1 |
7 |
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Civilian Defense: Industrial Fire Prevention and Protection |
1 |
8 |
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Civilian Defense: Organization and Training of Civilian Auxiliary Fire Fighting Forces |
1 |
9 |
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Civilian Defense: Suggestions for State and Local Fire Defense |
1 |
10 |
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Civilian Defense: Training Program |
1 |
11 |
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Civilian Mobilization: Analysis of Community, Social and Civic Services |
1 |
12 |
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Civilian Mobilization: Community Handbook of Citizen Morale |
1 |
13 |
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Civilian Mobilization: Fighting the War at Home |
1 |
14 |
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Civilian Mobilization: Citizen Morale Leaders Kits on War Problems |
1 |
15 |
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Civilian Mobilization: Volunteer Programs for Village and Rural Areas |
1 |
16 |
1941 |
Division of Commerce: Annual Report |
1 |
17 |
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Commerce: Aviation Future (Building an) |
1 |
18 |
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Commerce: Equipment and Facilities of Luggage and Leather Goods Manufacturers |
1 |
19 |
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Commerce: The Expanding Mineral Industry of the Adirondacks |
1 |
20 |
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Commerce: The Hotel and Resort Business in N.Y.S. After the War |
2 |
21 |
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Commerce: Index of Statistical Data Available in N.Y.S. Departments |
2 |
22 |
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Commerce: Industrial Plants Now Available in N.Y.S. |
2 |
23 |
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Commerce: International Trade |
2 |
24 |
1940-1941 |
Commerce: Inventory of Idle Plants Outside of N.Y.C. |
2 |
25 |
1941 |
Commerce: Inventory of Idle Plants Within N.Y.C. |
2 |
26 |
1943 |
Commerce: Inventory of Tug Boats |
2 |
27 |
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Commerce: Miscellaneous Pamphlets Vacation in N.Y.S. |
2 |
28 |
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Commerce: National Defense and the Industrial Resources of N.Y.S. |
2 |
29 |
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Commerce: New York Means Business |
2 |
30 |
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Commerce: New York State at Work for Victory and the Future |
2 |
31 |
1942 |
Commerce: Paper and Pulp Industries of N.Y.S. |
2 |
32 |
1941 |
Commerce: Recent Trends in Important Manufacturing Industries in N.Y.S. |
2 |
33 |
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Commerce: Sewing Machine and other Equipment of Corset, Girdle and Brassiere Mfgrs. |
2 |
34 |
1929-1939 |
Commerce: Trends in Important Manufacturing Industries in N.Y. |
2 |
35 |
1942 May |
Commerce: War Agency Handbook |
3 |
36 |
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Commerce: What Does Travel Mean To You? |
3 |
37 |
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Discrimination Committee |
3 |
38 |
1941 March-1944 July |
Discrimination Committee: Report |
3 |
39 |
1944 July-September |
Discrimination Committee: Report |
3 |
40 |
1944 December 31 |
Discrimination Committee: Report, Year ending |
3 |
41 |
|
Defense Programs: (N.Y.S. & Local) |
3 |
42 |
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Discrimination Committee: The Negro Integrated |
3 |
43 |
1941 March-1944 July |
Discrimination Committee: Report |
3 |
44 |
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Education: Bulletin to the Schools |
3 |
45 |
|
Education: Defense Savings |
3 |
46 |
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Education: Extended School Services A Program for Children of Mothers Employed |
3 |
47 |
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Education: Extended School Services Program - Equipment for Play Centers |
3 |
48 |
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Education: Fundamental Principles and Practices in Radio |
3 |
49 |
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Education: High School Victory Corps. |
3 |
50 |
|
Education: National Defense Civic Education for Out of School Youth |
3 |
51 |
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Education: Report on Secondary Education |
3 |
52 |
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Education: Secondary Education in Wartime |
3 |
53 |
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Education: Training for Industry |
3 |
54 |
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Education: Training War Production Workers |
3 |
55 |
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Education: Wartime Adjustments in Physical Science |
3 |
56 |
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Education: Wartime Adjustments in Secondary Schools |
3 |
57 |
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Education: Educational Adjustments for Wartime Economic Problems |
3 |
58 |
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Education: War Records Handbook |
3 |
59 |
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Education: Vocational Training for National Defense |
3 |
60 |
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Education: Wartime Problems in Mathematics and Physics |
4 |
61 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Child Care Development and Protection Suggested Record Forms, etc. |
4 |
62 |
|
Education for Civilian Defense: Child Care and Protection |
4 |
63 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Community Programs of Child Care, Development, & Protection |
4 |
64 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Guides for Establishing Nursery Schools & Child Care and Development Centers |
4 |
65 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Home Nursing for Civilian Defense |
4 |
66 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Parents Prepare: Maintaining Family Morale in Wartime |
4 |
67 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Parents Prepare: Maintaining Family Morale in Wartime |
4 |
68 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Preparation for Naturalization of Foreign-Born Adults |
4 |
69 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Program of Advanced Training for Volunteer Child Health Aides |
4 |
70 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: School Program in Homemaking Education to Meet Wartime Needs |
4 |
71 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Selection and Training of Volunteers as Child Care Aides |
4 |
72 |
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Education for Civilian Defense: Youth Service Councils |
4 |
73 |
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Emergency Food Commission: Editing the Wartime Platter |
4 |
74 |
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Emergency Food Commission: Feeding Families in Wartime |
4 |
75 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: List of Leaflets Distributed by: Pamphlets |
4 |
76 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: Pamphlets |
4 |
77 |
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Emergency Food Commission: Pamphlets |
4 |
78 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: Pamphlets |
4 |
79 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: Pamphlets |
4 |
80 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: Pamphlets |
4 |
81 |
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Emergency Food Commission: Posters (Located Map Cabinet #1) |
4 |
82 |
|
Emergency Food Commission: Food and Farming |
4 |
83 |
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Emergency Welfare Services: Manual of Policies and Procedures |
4 |
84 |
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Emergency Welfare Services: Training Program |
4 |
85 |
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Farm Labor: Program for New York |
4 |
86 |
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Health Dept: Health and the War |
5 |
88 |
|
Health Dept: Emergency Sanitation Services |
5 |
89 |
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Health Dept: Medical Care in N.Y.S. |
5 |
90 |
|
Health Dept: Organization of Activities |
5 |
91 |
|
Health Dept: Physicians' Board |
5 |
92 |
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Health Dept: Preliminary Survey of Hospital Facilities in N.Y.S. and their Possible Expansion |
5 |
93 |
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Health Dept: Public Water Supplies in N.Y.S. |
5 |
94 |
|
Health Dept: The Sanitary Code |
5 |
95 |
|
Health Dept: Water Supply Control |
5 |
96 |
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Health Dept: Venereal Disease Information |
5 |
97 |
|
Health Dept: Preparedness Commission |
5 |
98 |
|
Health Preparedness Commission: Health and Medical Care, Ontario County |
5 |
99 |
|
Health Preparedness Commission: Health and Medical Care, Seneca County |
5 |
100 |
|
Health Preparedness Commission: Health and Medical Care, Washington County |
5 |
101 |
1941 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Health Mobilization for Defense |
5 |
102 |
1943 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Health Mobilization for Defense |
5 |
103 |
1939, 1941 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Preliminary Report; Special Report |
6 |
104 |
1939 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Long Range Health Program: Report |
6 |
105 |
1941-1942 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Long Range Health Program: Report |
6 |
106 |
1943-1944 |
Health Preparedness Commission: Long Range Health Program: Report |
6 |
107 |
|
Health Preparedness Commission: United Action for Health Defense |
6 |
108 |
1945 March |
Housing: Report of Commissioner |
6 |
109 |
1942 January-May |
Labor Dept: The Industrial Bulletin |
6 |
110 |
1945 |
Labor Dept: Placement and Unemployment Insurance Report |
6 |
111 |
1941 January |
Legislation - Laws: Governor Lehman's Message to the Legislature |
6 |
112 |
|
N.Y.S. Payroll Deduction Plan: Save For Democracy |
6 |
113 |
|
N.Y.S. - Report of N.Y.S. Commission Against Discrimination |
6 |
114 |
|
University, State of N.Y. Bulletin to the Schools |
6 |
115 |
|
ODT: A Plan for the Conservation of Vital War Transportation |
6 |
116 |
|
ODT: Conservation of Vital War Transportation |
6 |
117 |
|
ODT: Review of Highway Transport and Transit Industries During the War |
6 |
119 |
|
ODT: Surveys of Vital Routes and Facilities |
6 |
120 |
|
ODT: Transportation Training |
6 |
121 |
|
OPA: Price Regulation: Bulletin #2 |
6 |
122 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
6 |
123 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
124 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
125 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
126 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
127 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
128 |
|
OPA: Economics of the Home Front |
7 |
129 |
|
OPA: General Maximum Price Regulation |
7 |
130 |
|
OPA: How to Buy Food |
7 |
131 |
|
OPA: Mileage Rationing: Gasoline Regulations |
7 |
132 |
|
OPA: National Defense: Consumer Information Centers |
7 |
133 |
|
OPA: New Automobile Rationing Regulation |
7 |
134 |
|
OPA: Plan For Trade Registration |
7 |
135 |
|
OPA: Rationing: Why and How |
7 |
136 |
|
OPA: War Price and Rationing Boards (Handbook For) |
7 |
137 |
|
OWI: Battle Stations For All |
7 |
138 |
|
OWI: Bishop of Berlin |
7 |
139 |
|
OWI: Chronology of the Nazi Record (?) |
7 |
140 |
|
OWI: Controlling Careless Talk Working Kit |
7 |
141 |
|
Economic Stabilization |
7 |
142 |
|
OWI: Facts About The United Nations |
7 |
143 |
|
OWI: Negroes and the War (oversized) |
7 |
144 |
|
OWI: Quotations From Nazi Sources |
7 |
145 |
|
OWI: Tale of a City |
8 |
147 |
|
OWI: The Peace For Which We Fight |
8 |
148 |
|
OWI: The Thousand Million |
8 |
149 |
|
OWI: The Unconquered People |
8 |
150 |
|
OWI: Women in the War |
8 |
151 |
|
Physical Fitness: Memorials That Live Landscape Plans |
8 |
152 |
|
Physical Fitness: Pamphlets |
8 |
153 |
|
Red Cross: Pamphlets |
8 |
154 |
|
Red Cross: Pamphlets |
8 |
155 |
|
Red Cross: Pamphlets |
8 |
156 |
|
Red Cross: Pamphlets |
9 |
157 |
|
Social Welfare: Democracy Cares |
9 |
158 |
|
Social Welfare: The Effects of War on Children |
9 |
159 |
|
State Council of Defense: Bulletins 1-5 |
9 |
160 |
|
State Council of Defense: Aircraft Warning Service |
9 |
161 |
|
State Council of Defense: Manual for Local Defense Councils |
9 |
162 |
|
State Council of Defense: Organization of Auxiliary Fire Corps. |
9 |
163 |
|
State Council of Defense: Organization of Auxiliary Police Corps. |
9 |
164 |
|
State Council of Defense: N.Y.S. and Local Defense Programs |
9 |
165 |
|
State Council of Defense: Report on N.Y.S. Defense Program |
9 |
166 |
|
U.S. Labor Dept: Child-Health Conference |
9 |
167 |
1943 |
U.S. Labor Dept: Facts About Child Health |
9 |
168 |
|
U.S. Labor Dept: Children's Charter in Wartime, Children in Wartime |
9 |
169 |
|
U.S. Labor Dept: Our Concern - Every Child |
9 |
170 |
|
War Dept: Military Chemistry and Chemical Agents |
9 |
171 |
|
War Dept: Treatment of Casualties From Chemical Agents |
9 |
172 |
|
War Manpower Commission: Guide for the Prevention of Health Services |
9 |
173 |
1941-1943 |
War Council: Annual Reports |
9 |
174 |
1944-1945 |
War Council: Annual Reports |
9 |
175 |
|
War Manpower Commission: Posters (oversized) |
9 |
176 |
|
War Production Board: Posters (oversized) |
9 |
177 |
|
War Training: Air Raid Warden |
10 |
178 |
|
War Training: Block Leader |
10 |
179 |
|
War Training: Block Service Leader's Kit |
10 |
180 |
|
War Training: Civilian Defense Drivers |
10 |
181 |
|
War Training: Forest Fire-Fighters Handbook |
10 |
182 |
|
War Training: Handbook |
10 |
183 |
|
War Training: Instructor-Training Manual |
10 |
184 |
|
War Training: Improving Supervisory Practice Through In-Service Training |
10 |
185 |
|
War Training: Manual of tactics Air Warden Service |
10 |
186 |
|
War Training: N.Y.S. War Film Catalogue and Handbook |
10 |
187 |
|
War Training: Reactions of People Under Stress |
10 |
188 |
|
War Training: Sanitation and Water Works Manual |
10 |
189 |
|
War Training: State War Film Advisory Council |
10 |
190 |
|
War Training: Training in the Public Service in N.Y.S. |
10 |
191 |
|
War Transportation Committee: War Transportation Conservation Plan, N.Y.S. |
10 |
192 |
|
War Transportation Committee: War Transportation Manual |
10 |
193 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime |
10 |
194 |
1943-1944 |
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Manuals |
11 |
195 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Student Nurse Recruitment |
11 |
196 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Recruitment Pamphlets - Nurses |
11 |
197 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Recruitment Posters - Nursing 4 (oversized) |
11 |
198 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Recruitment Pamphlet - Physical Therapy |
11 |
199 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Distribution of Nursing Service During War |
11 |
200 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service Recruitment: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps. |
11 |
201 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps: Publicity Kit |
11 |
202 |
1944 |
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps: Rotary Kit |
11 |
203 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps: 5 Posters; 3 oversized Publicity
Sheets
|
11 |
204 |
|
Youth Training Services in Wartime N.Y.S. Nursing Council for War Service U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps: News |
11 |
205 |
1943-1944 |
Youth Training Services in Wartime Nursing Information Bureau Facts About Nursing |
11 |
206 |