TABLE OF CONTENTS
RG 034, State Salvage Committee
Inventory of Records
Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
Copyright © 2007 by the Connecticut State Library
Overview of the Collection |
|
| Repository: | Connecticut State Library |
| Creator: | Connecticut. Sate Salvage Committee |
| Title: | State Salvage Committee records |
| Dates: | 1941-1945 |
| Quantity: | 17.5 cubic feet |
| Abstract: | The State Salvage Committee informed the public of the need for conserving scarce materials and assisted in collecting and utilizing salvage during World War II. |
| Identification: | RG034 |
| Accession: | T002688 |
| Language: | The records are in English. |
Historical Note
The State Salvage Committee was organized in December 1941 as part of the State Defense Council (later known as the War Council). It also served as the Connecticut agent of the General Salvage Section of the Conservation Bureau of the U. S. Office of Production Management. The Committee informed the public of the need for conserving scarce materials and assisted in collecting and utilizing salvage. It worked with local town salvage committees and with scrap and waste dealers on an Advisory Salvage Board. The Committee appears to have functioned as an independent agency, despite its origin as a part of the Defense Council and its various connections with Federal Government agencies (O.P.M., W.P.B., etc.). It went out of business in early 1945.
Return to the Table of Contents
Scope and Content
The record group contains minutes and agendas of meetings, drafts and copies of speeches and reports, lists of local and industry committee members, incoming and outgoing correspondence, town production cards, publicity materials such as newsletters and photographs, administrative subject files, and town correspondence and memoranda files.
Return to the Table of Contents
Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
These records are stored at an off-site facility and therefore may not be available on a same-day basis.
See the Rules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured Collections policy.
Restrictions on Use
See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.
Return to the Table of Contents
Related Material
RG 005:029, Raymond E. Baldwin gubernatorial records, 1943-1946 (under "Salvage")
RG 050, War Council, 1940-1945
Return to the Table of Contents
Index Terms
Organizations:
Subjects:
Document Types:
Return to the Table of Contents
Container List
| Records, 1941-1945 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 1. Executive and organizational papers, 1941-1945 | 1-3 | ||||||||||
| Contains minutes and agenda of meetings, drafts and copies of speeches and reports, lists of local and industry committee members, correspondence with members of the salvage Committee and other materials. | |||||||||||
| Grouped by subject or correspondent. | |||||||||||
| 2. Production record cards, 1942-1945 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Cards showing, for each town, the quantity of metal, rags, paper, tin and grease salvage. | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical by town. | |||||||||||
| 3. Publicity material, 1942-1945 | 4-6 | ||||||||||
| Samples and files of publicity and public relations materials used to promote public interest and participation. Included are scripts of radio programs, glossy prints of pictures, press releases (with index), The Scrapper and Connecticut Salvage, clippings, a flag, etc. | |||||||||||
| 4. Subject file, 1941-1945 | |||||||||||
| Contains general program and administrative correspondence, reports, memoranda and related material. | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical by subject. | |||||||||||
| A-Billboards | 7 | ||||||||||
| Bills of lading-Bureau of Mines | 8 | ||||||||||
| Buttons-Depot | 9 | ||||||||||
| E-Farm Press Scrap Drive | 10 | ||||||||||
| Fats-Governor | 11 | ||||||||||
| Grease-Industrial | 12 | ||||||||||
| Industry-Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel | 13 | ||||||||||
| Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel-Maps | 14 | ||||||||||
| Milk Dealers Association-P | 15 | ||||||||||
| Paper | 16 | ||||||||||
| Paper-Pictures | 17 | ||||||||||
| Phonograph records-Regional Bulletins | 18 | ||||||||||
| Rejects-School plan | 19 | ||||||||||
| Schools-Spinning | 20 | ||||||||||
| Sponge iron-Steel | 21 | ||||||||||
| T-Weekly Progress Report | 22 | ||||||||||
| 5. Town file, 1941-1945 | |||||||||||
| Contains correspondence, reports and memoranda concerning local salvage programs. | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical by town. | |||||||||||
| Andover-Bridgeport | 23 | ||||||||||
| Bridgewater-Danbury | 24 | ||||||||||
| Darien-Essex | 25 | ||||||||||
| Fairfield-Hampton | 26 | ||||||||||
| Hartford-Lyme | 27 | ||||||||||
| Madison-Monroe | 28 | ||||||||||
| Montville-New Haven | 29 | ||||||||||
| New London-Norwich | 30 | ||||||||||
| Old Lyme-Roxbury | 31 | ||||||||||
| Salem-Stamford | 32 | ||||||||||
| Sterling-Warren | 33 | ||||||||||
| Washington-West Hartford | 34 | ||||||||||
| Weston-Woodstock | 35 | ||||||||||