TABLE OF CONTENTS


Overview of the Collection

Historical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Container List

Series 1. General

Series 2. Executive Department

Series 3. Americanization Department

Series 4. Child Welfare Department

Series 5. Food Supply Department

Series 6. Fuel Conservation Committee

Series 7. Health and Recreation Department

Series 8. Historical Records Department

Series 9. Military and Naval Committee

Series 10. Publicity Department

Series 11. Soldiers' and Sailors' Information Bureau

Series 12. Transportation Department

Series 13. Fund-raising Activities

Series 14. Woman's Division

Series 15. New London County Auxiliary Committee

Series 16. Exhibit Material

Series 17. Miscellaneous

RG 030, Council of Defense

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 State Council of Defense
Title: Connecticut State Council of Defense records
Dates: 1917-1919
Quantity: 198 cubic feet
Abstract: The Council of Defense coordinated war activities in Connecticut during World War I. Its various committees dealt with the various areas of concern, such as food supply, fuel conservation, transportation, military and naval affairs and publicity.
Identification: RG030
Accession: T001102
Language: The records are in English.

Historical Note

The Council of Defense was Connecticut's agency for coordinating its war activities during World War I. Appointed on 26 April 1917 by Gov. Marcus Holcomb under the authority of the emergency act (Chap. 44, Public Acts of 1917), it initially consisted of eleven members representing industry, labor, the professions and the military, with Richard M. Bissell as Chairman.1 The first meeting was held on 8 May 1917 and the agency was discontinued in March 1919.

At first the Council was organized in a series of appointed committees to deal with the various areas of concern, such as food supply, fuel conservation, transportation, military and naval affairs and publicity. A small secretarial and administrative staff was headed by Thomas Hewes. As the work expanded, a number of the committees acquired their own full-time staffs and became "Departments", and a stronger executive control was established through the creation of an Executive Department headed by Joseph M. Alsop, a member of the Council.

Much of the Council's attention was devoted to coordinating, supporting and publicizing the work of other agencies. Leading officials of many other war agencies served also on Council of Defense committees, and in some cases the Council supplied staff assistance and other help to United States agencies in Connecticut or to other Connecticut agencies in the war effort. The Military Census, which was the first Connecticut war agency (Feb.. 7, 1917), was represented on the Council by its director, and the Committee on Food Supply, which preceded the Council by a couple of weeks, became one of its departments. The Council collaborated closely with the United States Food Administration, the United States Fuel Administration, the United States Employment Service, the Committee on Public Information and, of course, the Council of National Defense. Efforts were made to organize town "war bureaux" to coordinate war work on a local scale; these met with varying success and little record of their work survives. Auxiliary committees on the county level also existed; the files of the New London one are here.

Mention must be made of the important Woman's Division. Organized first as a state committee of the Council of National Defense Woman's Committee, it gradually, by the summer of 1918, assumed the status of a department in the Connecticut Council. As that occurred, some of its earlier programs (Americanization, child welfare, "commercial economy", etc.) were taken over by other units of the Council, but the Woman's Division continued to be represented on those committees and to play an important role in all the agency's work.

Endnotes
1The appointment document is in RG 005:022 Office of the Governor, Marcus H. Holcomb, 1917-1918, file 107. Other background material is in the same series, files 104, 105, and 137. The official history, prepared by Henry M. Wriston and others, is Report of the Connecticut State Council of Defense, December 1918 (Hartford, 1919).

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Scope and Content

The record group contains general records as well as records from the following departments: Executive, Americanization, Child Welfare, Food Supply, Fuel Conservation, Health and Recreation, Historical Records, Military and Naval Committee, Publicity, Soldiers' and Sailors' Information Bureau, Transportation, Fund Raising, Woman's Division, and the New London Auxiliary Committee.

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Arrangement

Series 1. General

Series 2. Executive Department

Series 3. Americanization department

Series 4. Child Welfare Department

Series 5. Food Supply Department

Series 6. Fuel Conservation Committee

Series 7. Health and Recreation Department

Series 8. Historical Records Department

Series 9. Military and Naval Committee

Series 10. Publicity Department

Series 11. Soldiers' and Sailors' Information Bureau

Series 12. Transportation Department

Series 13. Fund-Raising Activities

Series 14. Woman's Division

Series 15. New London county Auxiliary Committee

Series 16. Exhibit Material

Series 17. Miscellaneous

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

These records are stored at an off-site facility and therefore may not be available on a same-day basis.

Because of the physical problems involved, special arrangements must be made for the consultation of the lantern slides, and cuts and plates.

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.

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Related Material

RG 005:022, Office of the Governor, Marcus H. Holcomb, 1915-1921. See particularly, for 1917-1919, files 104, 105, 107, 137, and for 1919-1921, file 66.

RG 012, Connecticut State Library. Records of the War Records Department include much material closely related to records of the Historical Records Department of the Council of Defense. Also see War LIbrary Fund records, 1917.

RG 013, Military Department. Military Emergency Board orders pertaining to the Home Guard and the State Guard.

RG 018, Civil Service Commission. These materials, 1913-1921, were evidently held at one time by the War Records Department; they are related to the Military Census records (recruitment of nurses, etc.) and the Labor Department, Employment Service (placement of returned veterans).

RG 020, Department of Labor. Included are files of the U.S. Employment Service pertaining to the efforts to find jobs for demobilized service people.

RG 029, Military Census. This was in a sense the predecessor of the Council of Defense; its head became a COuncil member and records include material on draft age men, aliens, farms, crops, livestock, automobiles, doctors, nurses, and factories. Council of Defense Industrial Survey records are here.

RG 050, War Council. This was the World War II agency similar to the Council of Defense.

RG 064, Pictorial Collection. Included are a scattering of photographs and posters from the Council of Defense and war-related activities.

RG 069, Manuscript Collections. Some war-related groups include RG 069:001 (Hohenthal papers on draft board and temperance work), RG 069:002 (Crocker photographs of war-time Hartford), RG 06:017 (Lorenz photograph collection of prominent persons).

There are also several small record groups containing records of veterans' organizations.

Among the Classified Archives are personal papers and other materials pertaining to Connecticut in World War I. Most are catalogued under "European War, 1914-1918".

Exhibit and demonstration material.
The following items were transferred to the Museum of Connecticut History. These items were used to attract public attention and support or to explain and illustrate Council of Defense activities and war programs. It has not always been determined just how and where they were used. Most are damaged and extremely dirty. The following is a list of partial captions or descriptions.
1. The proportions of the problem in the United States - in Connecticut (incomplete). 2 panels, each 48 x 72 in.
2. The solution of the problem. 48 x 72 in.
3. True Americanism. 48 x 72 in.
4. Americanization - What it is, 48 x 782 in.
5. Connecticut is making good Governor's pledge to Pres. Wilson...Are you doing your part?. Wood frame. 48 x 108 in.
6. Dates you should remember...hasten the day of victory. Wood frame. 48 x 108 in.
7. War education and information - The Department of Publicity. Wood frame. 48 x 108 in.
8. Over the top (4th Liberty Loan). 48 x 108 in.
9. Millions for defense (4th Liberty Loan). Wood frame. 48 x 120 in.
10-12. Official U.S. Government war photographs. Three panels, each with mounted 8 x 10 in. glossy prints of military scenes, with typed captions. 2 panels, 48 x 96 in.; 1 panel 48 x 84 in.
13. Where Allied armies are smashing Huns. Wood frame. 48 x 108 in.
14. Where armies of democracy are smashing road to victory. Double panel, hinged. Wood frame. Each panel, 48 x 96 in.
15. Rallies carry war message to many thousands. Wood frame. 48 x 84 in.
16. Patriotic press of Connecticut backs up the republic. 42 x 84 in.
17. These Connecticut newspapers are helping win the war (mounted masthead clippings). Wood frame. 42 x 84 in.
18. Map of markets to which Pocahontas and New River coals are limited...1915. 40 x 60 in.
19. Emergency organization for the City of New Haven. Wood frame. 28 x 44 in.
20. Local agencies of the Connecticut State Council of Defense (map with colored buttons). Wood frame.
21. State Highway Department map with unidentified route markings. 26 x 36 in.
22. New England Fuel administration chart. 15 x 28 in.
23. Tell it to Pershing. 30 x 42 in.
24. New consecration is the duty of the living. 28 x 40 in.
25. Stand fast America! 28 x 40 in.
26. Large banner, approximately 8 x 20 feet, containing a representation of governor Holcomb's cable of support to President Wilson on 3(?) or 5 February 1917 has been destroyed. It appears in the photographs in Series 16, Exhibit Material and color photographs are in the Pictorial Collection (RG 064).
27. State of Connecticut Victory Liberty Loan Honor ROll. 48 x 60 in.
28. Some of the Publications issued by the Dept. of Publicity... Wood frame, glass. 32.5 x 40 in.
29. Make a Will (YMCA poster). 22 x 28 in.
30. Invest Wisely (YMCA poster). 22 x 28 in.

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Index Terms

Organizations:

Connecticut State Council of Defense

Organizations:

Bissell, Richard M. (Richard Mervin), 1862-1941

Subjects:

Americanization
Connecticut -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Connecticut State Council of Defense -- Records and correspondence
Food conservation
Food supply -- Connecticut
Fuel -- Conservation -- Connecticut
Fund raising -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Exhibitions -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Food supply -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fuel supplies -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- Transportation -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Propaganda
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Connecticut

Document Types:

Bills (legislative records)
Broadsides
Card indexes
Clippings
Correspondence
Lantern slides
Lists
Metal cuts
Minutes
Pamphlets
Photographs
Posters
Press releases
Printing plates
Questionnaires
Reports

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Administrative Information

Provenance

When the war ended, the Council of Defense wound up its own activities. The committees were disbanded, most of the staff turned to other work, and the records were turned over to the State Library for preservation. The records became the responsibility of the War Records Department of the State Library, which was the successor to the Historical Records Department (headed by George Godard, the State Librarian) of the Council of Defense.

Processing Information

After arrival at the State Library, the records were moved about many times and became almost inextricably mixed with other war-related materials (see Related Material section). While some measure of order has been restored, there are large groups of papers that are still unarranged and are described only in general terms such as "Collected" or "Miscellaneous" materials. Despite the remaining difficulties in using them, however, this record group remains an extraordinarily valuable collection of materials on Connecticut history during the critical period of World War I.

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Container List

Series 1. General
1. Classified file, 1917-1919
The general file, containing letters, memoranda, releases, publications and other materials. A copy of the classification scheme is available at the History and Genealogy reference desk.
Box
A. Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C. 1
A01 : Organization (including personnel)
A05 : List of Bulletins of Council of National Defense
A05 : Bulletins of Council of National Defense 1-105
A05f : Bulletins of Field Division, Council of National Defense
A05.1 : General Letters of Council of National Defense 2
A05.11 : General Letters of Field Division
A05.14 : Information Circulars of Council of National Defense
A05.16 : National Defense Magazine 3
A05.2 : News Articles
A07 : Addresses at Conferences
A16 : Method of Handling Mail
A100 : Field Division, Council of National Defense
A101 : Amalgamation of Work of Men and Women
A110 : Mr. Alsop’s Correspondence as Federal Field Secretary for Connecticut Council of National Defense
C. State Council of Defense, Committees of State Council
C01 : Organization, Personnel, etc. of Conn. Council
C04 : Conn. Laws
Pamphlets
Congressional Record, 1917 July 13
“Readjustment and Reconstruction Information” - Council of National Defense, 1919
C05 : Connecticut State Council - Activities 4
C05 : Connecticut Bulletin
C05 : Material About Connecticut Bulletin (Mailing Lists, Circulation, etc.)
C05 : Connecticut Bulletin, Editorials for (Correspondence Re Editorials for Conn. Bulletins)
C06 : Minutes of Council Meetings, 1917 May-December
C06 : Minutes of Council Meetings, 1918 January-July 5
C06 : Memoranda For Council Meetings 6
C06 : Index of Council Meetings
C06.01 : Procedure at Council Meetings - (Time of Meeting, etc.)
C06.1 : Invitations to Edward's Dinner, 1917 June 13
C06.2 : Meeting at Capitol, 1917 November 19
C06.3 : List of People Who Attended Jan 1918 Convention 7
C06.3 : Hearings of Convention [Transcript.], 1918 January
C06.3 : Convention - [Letters Re], 1918 January
C06.4 : War Conference, 1918 May 11
C06.4 : Requests For Tickets For War Conference,, 1918 May 11
C09 : Questionnaires of Council of National Defense
C09 : Conn. State Council of Defense - Reports To Mr. Guilford, 1917 June-1918 July
C09.b : Individual Reports Submitted For Mr. Wriston’s Report (filed by subject) 8
C09.r : [Correspondence Re Reports]
C09.w : Original Official Copies of Report - Draft of Mr. Wriston’s Report
C09.1 : Method of Preparing Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council, Committee on Women’s Activities Reports
C10 : Council National Defense - Reports (Final Report), 1918 April-December
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Employment Service Committee - Report 9
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Child Welfare Department Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Food Supply, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on State Protection, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Finance Reports
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Committee on Americanization
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Fuel office (T.W. Russell) Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Fuel Conservation Committee (Reports)
C10 : Connecticut State Council, Committee on Publicity Reports
----- : Howard A. Lawrence [Correspondence]
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Health and Recreation Bureau [Reports] 10
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Education, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Sanitation and Medicine Reports
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Historical Records Department Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Industrial Survey Committee Reports
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, legal Committee, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Coordination of Societies Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Commercial Relations Committee, Report
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Military and Naval Committee, Reports
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Non-war Construction Department, Reports
C10 : Connecticut Council of Defense, Smileage Book Campaign, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Transportation, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on War Savings [Reports]
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Hartford Co., Reports 11
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Fairfield Co., Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Litchfield Co., Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Middlesex Co., Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - New Haven County, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - New London County, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Tolland Co., Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, County Auxiliary Committees - Windham County, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense (Special Committees) Office Systems and Accounts, Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense (Special Committees) Organization Committee - Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Special Committee For Recruiting National Guard - Reports
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense (Special Committee), Headquarters Committee
C10 : Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee on Manpower and Labor, Reports
C10.1 : Summary of Reports, etc.
C11 : Budget Committee Folder
C11 : Finance (Council), Treasurer’s Office Data, etc.
C11 : Secretary’s Office - Expenditures
C12 : [Office Systems and Accounts]
C13 : [Office Methods - Filing, etc.]
C14 : Office Supplies & Equipment
C14.1 : Purchasing of Supplies
C14.21a : Automobile Supplies 12
C14.21c : Card Records
C14.21d : Dictograph - Ediphone
C14.21f : Filing Equipment - Letter Trays, etc.
C14.21f : Flags
C14.21i : Index System
C14.21i : Inks
C14.21m : Mechanical Devices
C14.21p : Paper (Stationary), Cards, Printing Papers
C14.21p : Photo Engraving
C14.21p : Printing
C14.21s : Safes
C14.21s : Slides for Moving Pictures
C14.21w : White Pine
C14.21z : Other Supplies
C14.22 : Quotations of Prices
C15 : Automobile
C16 : Mailing Department
C17 : Requisitions
C18 : Time Sheets
C19 : Badges of Council
C20 : Telegrams and Telephone
C24 : Volunteer Workers 13
C24 : Volunteered Assistance (Application for Work)
C25 : Recommendations
C50 : Reconstruction Work - Future of State Council System
C902 : How to Address other State Councils
C902 : [Circular - Council of National Defense, Field Division]
C902 : State Councils of Defense - Organization, Activities, etc.
C902.03 : [Correspondence Re State Councils of Defense]
C902.04 : [State Councils of Defense - Suggested Activities]
C902.11 : Expenditures of other State Councils
C904 : Alabama
C904 : Arizona Council of Defense
C906.05 : Arkansas - Press Bulletin
C907 : California State Council
C907.08 : California State Council of Defense-Circular Letters
C908 : Colorado
C908.05 : Colorado Weekly News Letter 14
C909 : Delaware
C910.06 : Florida
C912.05 : Idaho State Council - Press Bulletins
C913.05 : Illinois - Press Bulletins and Circulars
C913.05 : Illinois - State Council News
C914.05 : Indiana
C914.06 : Indiana War Conference
C915.05 : Iowa Council of Defense - Press Clip Sheets
C915.07 : Iowa Council of Defense - Addresses, Speeches, etc.
C915.08 : Iowa Council of Defense - Resolutions, etc.
C915.08 : Iowa Council of Defense - Circular Letters
C917.06 : Kentucky
C918 : Louisiana
C919 : Maine
C920 : Maryland
C921 : Massachusetts
C923.05 : Minnesota in the War
C925 : Missouri Council of Defense
C929 : New Hampshire
C930 : New Jersey 15
C931 : New Mexico
C931.05 : New Mexico War News
C932 : New York (State) Council of Defense
C933 : North Carolina Council
C934 : North Dakota
C935.05 : Ohio - Press Bulletins
C936.05 : Oklahoma Press Bulletins
C936.05 : Oklahoma State Council - Sooners in the War
C938 : Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
C938.05 : Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety - Press Information
C940 : South Carolina
C941 : South Dakota 16
C941.05 : South Dakota, Council of Defense
C943 : Texas State Council of Defiance
C944 : Utah
C945 : Vermont
C945.05 : Vermont Committee of Public Safety - Circulars
C948 : West Virginia
C949 : Wisconsin
C949.05 : Wisconsin State Council - Forward
C950.05 : Wyoming State Council - Press Notices
D. Finance
D14 : Federal Reserve
D14.01 : Capital Issues Committee
D15 : Liberty Bonds
D16 : First Liberty Loan
D17 : Second Liberty Loan
D17 : Second Liberty Loan - Lists, etc.
D17 : Second Liberty Loan and Fairfield County Situation
D18 : Third Liberty Loan
D18 : Letter of April 24 Requesting Reading of Governor’s Liberty Loan Proclamation in the Churches
D19 : Fourth Liberty Loan
D50 : Securities
D50.1 : Correspondence re Issuing of $100 Notes of Connecticut Power Co.
E. Publicity 17
E : Publicity
E01 : Publicity Committees - Organization, etc.
E06 : Committee on Publicity - Meetings
E10 : Budget & Expense Memoranda
E14 : Patriotism
E16 : [Flag Day Program for Industrial Plants]
E17 : Memorial day, 1918 May 30
E18 : Fourth of July Letters
E18 : Fourth of July
E18.1 : Fourth of July, 1918
E18.2 : Bastille Day
E18.3 : [Labor Day]
E18.4 : [Thanksgiving Day], 1918
E18.5 : Britain Day
E20 : Bulletin Boards
E20 : Correspondence A-D, Orders For Bulletin Boards, Sign Strips, and Posters
E20 : Correspondence E-Z, Orders For Bulletin Board, etc. 18
E20 : Postal Cards re Bulletin Boards
E20 : Correspondence with Town Committees re Orders for Bulletin Boards and Posters (Arranged by Town Alphabetically, Dead Correspondence), 1917
E20 : Bulletins Boards - Replies to Town Questionnaire 19
E21 : “Why Germany Wants Peace Now” (The Prussian Blot) - Requests and Remarks re Poster
E21 : “Courage Comrades, I'm Coming” - Poster
E21 : Liberty Loan Poster - Correspondence, 1918 April 10
E21 : Replies to Poster “Will You Display War Posters?”
E21 : Correspondence with Posting Agents re Care of Bulletin Boards
E21 : Posters (Material about)
E21.1 : List of stations where Bulletins can be posted N.Y., N.H., & H. R.R.
E21.2 : News Photos Posters
E21.2 : F.D. Roosevelt - Message to the Men and Women of Connecticut
E21.2 : News Photo Posters [Requests for] 20
E21.4 : Requests for Posters or Publications - Business Concerns
E21.4a : Requests for posters or Publications
E22 : Newspapers
E22 : “Made in Connecticut” War Interviews
E22.1 : “Made in Connecticut” War Interviews with Women
E23 : News bulletins
E24 : Press Notices (Very General)
E24 : “Bidwell Story”
E25 : Newspaper Representatives
E25 : Special Representatives on Newspapers
E26 : Transportation for Newspapers 21
E27 : Foreign Language Newspapers
E28 : [Division of Press Cooperation]
E30 : Permission to Print Legal Papers to be Kept
E30 : [List of Liberty Choruses] (in Black Binder)
E30 : Liberty Chorus Division, Council of Defense, Organizing Forms, 1918
E30 : Liberty Choruses
E30 : Council of Defense, Div. of Liberty Choruses - Bulletins of Department, 1918
E31 : Patriotic Songs
E31.1 : Songs Composed by Various People
E34 : Rallies
E34 : War Rallies Division - Record book (Black Book)
E34c : [War Savings Series - Permits and Confirmation of Rallies] 22
E34c : [War Rally Series - Permits and Confirmation of Rallies]
E34c : Confirmations of Arrangements for War Rallies
E34.02 : Orders for Posters & Handbills, Division of War Rallies, War Savings
E34.02 : Orders for Posters and Handbills, Division of War Rallies 23
E34.02 : Orders for Posters and Handbills, Division War Rallies, Section
E34.03 : Italian War Rally, 1918 March 10
E34.04 : [Eastford War Rally], 1918 April 3
E34.05 : [Information for the Press re War Rallies]
E34.07 : [Scottish War Rally], 1918 June 4
E34.08 : Jewish War Rally, 1918 June 2
E34.09 : Pershing’s Veterans for [Speaking Tours]
E34.09 : Data re Meeting Addressed by Perishing Veterans
E34.09 : Pershing Men [Poster]
E34.10 : Meeting at Parson’s, Addressed by Dr. Scherer and Paul Perigord
E34.11 : French Army Band, 2 folders
E34.12 : Lafayette-Marne Day Observance
E35 : Rally Week
E36 : Roosevelt War Rally
E37 : Halls
E38 : Speakers - Suspense (Mr. Dunham) 24
E38 : Rally Week Speakers (Mr. Dunham)
E38 : Speakers and Speaking Material
E38.011 : Speakers (Mr. Dunham)
E38.011 : Lists of Speakers
E38.09 : Confidential Reports on Speaking and Rallies
E38.09 : Confidential Speaker Lists
E38.4 : Military Speakers
------ : [List of Speakers] (Black Binder) 25
------ : [List of Four Minute Men] (Black Binder)
E38.5 : Four Minute Men
E38.506 : Meeting of Four Minute Men, 1917 October 8
E38.51 : Committee on Public Information - Div. of Four Minute Men - Army Bulletins
E39 : [Western Tour of George B. Chandler]
E40 : Celebration for Drafted Men
E50 : Memorials
E50.1 : Memorials, List of those Sent out
E50.2 : Memorials - Correspondence with War Bureaus and Local People (A-Z), 2 folders 26
E50.3 : Memorials - Correspondence with People Outside of Connecticut (Memorials of other States)
E50.4 : Casualty Lists - Letters re
E51 : Condolences
E60 : Christmas Buying
E63 : Solf Propaganda
E75 : Moving Pictures
E75.1 : Correspondence re Using Guy Hedlund as Moving Picture Director
E100 : Correspondence re Pay Envelopes
F. Legal 27
F25 : Soldier’s and Sailor’s Civil Relief Act
F25 : Soldier’s and Sailor’s Civil Rights Bill
F30 : [Press Release - Resource Mobilization Bureau]
F31 : Letter Stating That Home Service Section of Red Cross Should Arrange for Establishment of Legal Committees, 1918 April 6
F31 : Legal Committees of War Bureaus
F32 : Bureau of Soldier’s and Sailor’s Information
F50 : Legal Information for Soldiers and Sailors
F75 : Proposed War Legislation
G. Coordination of Societies
----- : [Lists of Societies] Lists of Connecticut Societies and Organizations
----- : [Lists of Societies, Associations (Including Hartford)] - (Black Binder) Letter to Lodges and Clubs of Connecticut, 1917 October 19
G02 : Mr. William’s Correspondence 28
G05 : Replies to Pamphlet “How to Serve Without Waste of Time or Energy”
G05 : Re Pamphlet Sent Out by Council Entitled “How to Serve without Waste of Time or Energy”
----- : [Soldier’s Big brother Movement]
G16 : Red Cross
----- : [Lists of Men’s Societies] (Black Binder)
G16 : Red Cross Branches and Chapters - Lists 29
----- : Red Cross Calendar
G16 : Red Cross Message
G16 : Letter To Red Cross Chapters, re Cooperation Between the Civilian Relief Committees and other Charitable Agencies, 1917 September 26
G16.03 : Red Cross Bulletin and News Letter
G16.08 : Red Cross Circular Letters
G16.1 : Junior Red Cross
G16.2 : Red Cross Campaign, 1918 May
G16.21 : Advertising for Red Cross Drive, 1918 May
G16.22 : Posters - Red Cross Campaign, 1918 May
G16.5 : Italian Red Cross 30
G69 : National League for Women’s Service
G150 : Relief and Welfare Charities
G201 : [Meeting - Conn. Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars]
G401 : Knights of Columbus
G500 : New Enterprises In General. Warning Against Entering Upon Without First Consulting Council
G501 : Individual Funds Approved or Investigated by Council (Letters in Regard to)
G501.1 : Smileage Book Correspondence (Arranged by Town Alphabetically) A-M.
G501.1 : Smileage Book Correspondence with towns, N-Z 31
G501.1 : Smileage Book Correspondence with Military Entertainment Council
G501.1 : Smileage Books - Circular Letters, posters, etc. Advertising Matters, Mailing List 32
G501.1 : Smileage Correspondence with Messrs Wayne and Broadhead
G501.1 : Press Notices re Smileage Books, Military Entertainment Council, etc. (Also Requisitions and Registry)
G501.1 : Smileage Reports
G501.2 : Boy Scouts
G501.3 : Navy Relief Society
G501.4 : Blue Cross, Red Star
G501.5 : Clark C. Griffith Ball and Bat Fund
G501.6 : Fund for Starving Belgian Children
G501.7 : North American Civic League For Immigrants
G501.8 : League for National Unity
G501.9 : Bohemian National League
G501.10 : Women’s National League, Washington, DC
G501.11 : Belgian Artist Committee & other Belgian Societies
G501.12 : Democracy Emblem Committee
G501.13 : American Hungarian Loyalty League
G501.14 : Conference Committee on National Preparedness
G501.15 : American Alliance and Institute of Freedom, Plan By J.A. Solandt
G501.16 : American Chocolate Funds 33
G501.17 : Treasure & Trinket Fund
G501.18 : American & Syrian Relief
G501.19 : [Union League Club]
G501.20 : [The American Committee for a Devastated France]
G501.21 : United Committee on War Temperance
G501.22 : Souvenir Rosters
G501.23 : [Connecticut Children’s Aid Society]
G501.24 : [British and Canadian Patriotic Fund]
G501.25 : America’s Allies Cooperative Committee
G501.26 : Lutheran Brotherhood
G501.27 : American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial
G501.28 : American Defense Society
G501.29 : Junior American Guard
G501.30 : Over Seas Club London
G501.31 : Stars and Stripes Club, Manchester, England
G501.32 : 76th Division Tobacco Fund
G501.33 : [Connecticut Patriotic League]
G501.34 : American Friends of Musicians in France
G501.35 : New England Home for Little Wanderers
G501.36 : Sherman Service
G501.37 : American Flag Society, American Honor Roll
G501.38 : [Unconditional Surrender Clubs]
G501.39 : [Harry Lauder Five Million Dollar Fund]
G501.40 : [Fatherless Children of France]
G501.41 : Polish National Department - Polish victims Relief Fund
G501.42 : Italian War Relief Fund of America
G501.43 : Oriental Esoteric Library League
G501.44 : [National Civic Federation Review] 34
G501.45 : Perishing Fourth of July Fund, Raised by United Spanish War Veterans
G501.46 : Woman’s National Honor Medal
G501.47 : Harlem League of Clubs
G501.48 : Mothers of Defenders of Democracy
G501.49 : Women’s Oversea Hospitals
G503 : Other Outside Funds
G504 : Lists of Approved Organizations, and lists Showing
G504 : Requests for our List of Approved Funds
G505 : Chain Letters.
G70 : Mother’s and Parent Teacher’s Associations
G85 : YWCA
G90 : YMCA
G91 : YMCA War Work Fund, Replies by County Committees
G91 : YMCA War Work Fund, Replies By Town Chairmen
G91 : YMCA War Work Fund, Replies to Letter of Oct. 30
G902 : [Voluntary Associations and Societies]
G937.05 : [Oregon and Ohio State Councils of Defense Newsletters]
G938 : [Statement of Organization and Function of Department of Allied Bodies, Committee of Public Safety, Pennsylvania]
H. Food Supply 35
H : Food Supply and Conservation
H01 : Local Food Administrators
H01 : [Letter from Gov. Holcomb]
H01 : Circular by Mr. Also [re Appointment of local Food Administrators]
H01 : List of Local Food Committees “Original Lists” (Envelope)
H03 : [Federal Food Administration, Washington, D.C.]
H04 : [Council of National Defense - “What the States are Doing”]
H05 : Bulletins - Connecticut State Council of Defense, Committee of Food Supply (Envelope)
H05 : [Bulletins re Potatoes]
H06 : Meetings of Food Supply Committee
H11 : [Problem of the Unemployed and the American Farmer - Speeches by Hon. Warren Worth Bailey.]
H12 : [Suggested Topics For Campaign For increased Planting]
H18 : [Letter From Boston re Slaughter of Cattle]
H20.05 : Press Bulletins - Publicity Bureau
H24 : Food Posters
H25 : Fairs and Exhibits - General Material - Press Data, Reports, Circular Letters and Misc.
H25 : Connecticut State Council of Defense - War Exhibits (Photo’s in Black Book) 36
H25.01 : Fairs and Exhibits - General Correspondence
H25.01 : Knights of Columbus - Correspondence re their Exhibits at Fairs
H25.01 : Red Cross Correspondence, Including that with Mabel Wilcox re missing box of exhibits
H25.01 : Warren, Alfred and Flaherty, Daniel- Correspondence
H25.01 : Correspondence re Washington Matters
H25.01 : Correspondence re Transportation For Fairs- Mr. L.W. Frisbie
H25.01 : Mr. F.D. Cheney’s Correspondence re Exhibits Includes Letters re Missing Zeppelin Model.
H25.01s : Berlin Fair - Correspondence and Press Data 37
H25.01s : Berlin Fair - Correspondence re Securing Government Exhibit
H25.01s : Brooklyn Fair
H25.01s : Danbury Fairs
H25.01s : Granby Fair
H25.01s : Guilford Fair
H25.01s : Hartford (Charter Oak Fair) - Correspondence & Press Data & Pamphlets
H25.01s : Harwinton Fair
H25.01s : Norfolk Fair
H25.01s : Norwich Fair
H25.01s : Riverton Fair
H25.01s : Rockville Fair
H25.01s : South Woodstock Fair
H25.01s : Stafford Spring Fair
H25.01s : Thompsonville Fair
H25.01s : Union Agricultural Society - Enfield Fair
H25.01s : Washington Fair
H25.01s : Windsor Fair
H25.01s : Wolcott Fair
H25.01s : Woodstock Fair
H25.011 : Correspondence and Recommendation re use to be made of exhibit material.
H25.099 : Foreign Trade Exhibits
H25.1 : Pay Roll (War Exhibits)
H25.3 : Original Drafts of Fair Posters and Notices
H.29 : Speaking re Food Administration
H30 : Connecticut Agricultural College
H30 : Connecticut Agricultural College Extension Service
H45 : Farm Bureaus
H45.NL : New London County Farm Bureau
H45.21 : Poster: “If you need Farm Labor, Ask For It”
H100 : Increase in Production of Food 38
H102 : Agriculture
H102 : Agricultural Department of Fairfield Co. Association
H102 : Agricultural Appropriation Bill
H102.05 : [New England Homestead]
H102.06 : Mass Meeting of Farmers, 1918 March 22
H102.061 : Connecticut Farmer’s Week
H102.07 : [List of Publications, US Department of Agriculture]
H107 : Weekly News Letter [USDA]
H107 : [Weekly News Letter, USDA] 39
H109 : Press Articles re Agricultural Surveys
H109 : Agricultural Surveys - Litchfield County
H110 : Forms For Returning Soldiers
H110.1 : Increased Planting
H118 : [Potash]
H119.1 : [Nitrate of Soda]
H125 : [Farm Machinery]
H130 : Seeds
H140 : Agriculture Labor
H140 : Farm Labor (Herbert Knox Smith’s Folder)
H143 : Women on Farms
H144 : Victory Farm Helpers League (Voluntary Farm Work by Business and Professional Men)
H145 : Junior food Army (Home Gardening, Canning, etc.)
H146 : Boy’s Working Reserve
H146.21 : Boy’s Working Reserve - Posters
H147 : Connecticut Boy’s working Reserve - Boys For Farm Service Camps 40
H147.01 : Letter of Aug. 6, 1918 to High School Principals re Help for Harvesting - List of Students
H148 : Activities of Employment Service in re Farm Labor
H152 : Furloughs to Enlisted Men to Enable Them to Engage In Agriculture
H210 : Live stock
H210.3 : Meat
H215 : [Courses for Women at State Agricultural College]
H215.3 : [Milk]
H216 : Sheep Raising
H217 : [Dogs]
H231 : [Poster: “Kill the Slacker Hen”]
H270 : Grain (Wheat, etc.)
H275 : Flour and Feed Mills
H295 : Gardens
H295.2 : [Supervisors for Junior Gardeners]
H510 : Markets 41
H510 : Daily Market News Letter (US Bureau of Markets)
H630 : Receipts for Cooking
H700 : Preservation of Food - Canning
H800 : Food Conservation
H801 : Sending Food to Camps and Cantonments
H808 : Hoover Pledges - Wheat Saving
H840 : Sugar
H902.05 : [US Food Administration, Washington DC - Official Statements]
H906.05 : [US Food Administration, Little Rock]
H921.05 : [Food Administration Bulletin, Boston]
H921.09 : [Bulletin #19-106: Report Form For Town Committees]
H929 : [Bureau of Educational Experiments, New York]
J. Industrial Survey 42
J : White Survey (Industrial Survey)
J : [Industrial Surveys]
J12 : [Price Fixing]
J18 : Manufacturer’s Association
J21 : Correspondence With Manufacturers re Army Cloth and Government Contracts, 1917 May
J21 : Mr. Cheney’s Correspondence re Increased Production of Olive Drab Cloth, 1918 January
J22 : Factories
J23 : Priority System - Priority Board
J23 : Replies From State Councils Regarding National Priority Board
J24 : Priorities (In Industry)
J24 : Priorities (Herbert Knox Smith’s Material)
J25 : Fire Prevention
J26 : Conservation Association of Connecticut
J27 : Fire Inspection
J27 : Bissell, Rm. - Letter re Inspection of Property for Purposes of Fire Prevention, October 3 43
J28 : Explosives
J29 : Interchange of Fire Apparatus, Mutual Fire Aid Cooperation, Hose Couplings - For Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Cheney
J31.01 : Gasoline Conservation
J31.02 : Automobile Riding on Sundays. Gasoline Days, 2 folders
J32 : Platinum Conservation
J41 : Essential & Non-Essential Industries
J45 : [Waste Reclamation]
J45.1 : Waste Paper. Also Saving of Paper
J50 : Convict Labor
J105 : Waterbury Rent Hearing 44
J105 : Rents - Housing
J105.01 : Mr. H.K. Smith’s Correspondence re Waterbury Rent Raising 45
J105.1 : Rooming Facilities - “Rent A Room” Campaign
J200 : Commercial Economy
J200 : Commercial Economy - Clippings
J200.06 : Conference on Commercial Economy, 1918 February 6
J200.1 : Letter to Secretaries of Chambers of Commerce re Delivery Service, 1917 July 20, August 14
J200.2 : Commercial Economy - Work by Women
J201 : Wool-Yarn
J225 : Containers
J226 : Automobile Economy
J227 : Garbage Utilization
J300 : National Resources Association
K. Manpower and Labor
K : Manpower and Labor - General Material
K01 : General Instructions to Manpower and Labor Committee 46
K01 : Organization of Manpower and Labor Committee
K02 : Smith, Herbert Knox - Correspondence File
K06 : Minutes of Committee Meetings
K08 : General Data, Memoranda, etc.
K11 : Finance - Budgets, etc., of Committee on Manpower and Labor
K12 : Military Census of Connecticut
K13 : War Census
K14 : Labor (General Material)
K15 : Hours of Labor
K16 : Daylight Saving
K18 : Loafing - “Work or Fight” Orders
K21.2 : [KWHH - Who Are They? (Poster)] 47
K26 : Tobacco (General Material Including our Circular letters) - Reports
K26 : Tobacco - Press Items
K26.1 : Correspondence re Tobacco Hearings - Applications for Increased Acreage
K26.1 : Tobacco Hearing Letters, 1917 December-1918 January
K26.2 : Tobacco - Signed Statements of Tobacco Growers re Acreage
K25.3 : Tobacco Correspondence
K26.3 : Mr. Herbert Knox Smith’s Correspondence
K101 : British Commission From The Ministry of Munitions
K101 : British Commission From The Ministry of Munitions Correspondence
K102 : Proposed Munition Personnel Bureau
K115 : Shipbuilding - Circular Letter
K115 : Shipbuilding - Press Data
K115 : Shipbuilding - Correspondence and other Data 48
K185 : Wages
K200 : Employment of Women - Women In Industry
K205 : Women’s Division of US Employment Service
K205.06 : Conference Under Auspices of the Women’s Division, of the US Employment Service, 1918 December 5
K205.2 : Professional Training For Women
K230 : Shortage of Labor
K230 : Herber Knox Smith’s Correspondence re Labor Supply and Shortage
K231 : Skilled Labor (Yellow Survey) (2 envelopes)
K231 : Skilled Labor (Yellow Survey) - Circulars, Materials About Survey, etc.
K231 : Skilled Labor (Yellow Survey) No.2 49
K231 : Address by Dorragh De Lancey, with Blanks, Forms etc.
K240 : Organization of Civilian Service - US Public Service Reserve
K250 : Labor Exchanges - Employment Service
K250.01 : Offices of US Employment service
K250.051 : State Clearance Bulletins (US Employment Service)
K250.05 : [Report of the Conference Held Under the Auspices of the women’s Division, US Employment Service]
K250.07 : Posters Issued by the Department of Labor
K250.08 : Circular Letters of Employment Service
K250.1 : [Press Releases re Tank Corps]
K250.2 : Labor Mobilization - Community Labor Board 50
K260 : Civilian Personnel Division of War Department
K270 : [Press Release - Clerks for Ordinance Department]
K270.1 : Bridgeport Office of the Ordinance
K275 : Employment For Returning Soldiers - Labor Re-Adjustment
K275.1 : Bureau For Returning Soldiers.
K275.2 : Development of Public Works to Provide Employment for Returning Soldiers.
K276 : Cancellation of War Contracts
K388.9 : Mr. Herbert Knox Smith’s Correspondence
K388.9 : Strikes
K389 : Industrial Mediation and Arbitration
K902 : [Pamphlet: “Organization of the Committee, Scope and Objects..” (Council of National Defense)]
L. Military and Naval
L : Military and Naval - Recruiting and Enrollment in Army and Navy
L : Clippings
L : Military and Naval Committee - Correspondence of Admiral Cowles and Col.Cowles
L14 : Recruiting & Enlistment 51
L14 : Applications for Enlistment
L14.2 : British Recruiting Mission
L15 : Draft
L15 : [Report Provost Marshall General to Secretary of Defense: “On the First Draft under the Selective Service act 1917”]
L16 : Registration
L16.1 : Registration Day, 1917 June 5
L16.2 : Registration Day, 1918 June 5
L16.3 : Registration, 1918 September 12
L17 : Exemptions
L17.01 : Herbert Knox Smith’s Correspondence re Draft Exemptions
L17.02 : Occupational Exemptions - Classification of Employees H.K. Smith’s and F.D. Cheney’s Industrial Survey
L17.03 : Industrial advices to District Draft Boards]
L17.1 : Boards
L17.1 : Lists of Draft Boards, etc.
L17.2 : Classification of Connecticut towns by exemption Districts
L17.3 : Crowder, E. H. - Rulings re Exemptions and Instructions For Local Boards, etc. 52
L17.31 : Governor’s Circulars to Local Boards, Medical, etc. also Major Buckley’s Letters
L17.32 : Governor’s Medical Aide (Dr. D. Chester Brown) - Circulars 53
L17.33 : Circulars to Local Boards by Connecticut Council of Defense
L17.34 : Local Board Progress charts
L17.4 : Exempted Aliens
L17.5 : Exemption of Harvey Levine
L17.6 : Aid for Local Draft Boards
L17.7 : [Letter - Physical Defects as Found by Exemption Boards]
L17.8 : Boards of Instructions - Meetings of Drafted Men
L17.9 : Agricultural Registrants
L18 : Population
L19 : Need of speeding up Military Plans
L20 : Lists of Names on Honor Rolls in Towns
L20 : List of Connecticut Men in the Service (Letters we sent re Lists and Cards)
L20 : Honor Rolls (General Material re)
L20 : Regular Army Enlistments
L20 : Lists of Men in Service - Compiled from Records at Washington - Sent to us by B.F. English, 2 folders
L20.02 : Proper Recognition on Honor Rolls for those who have died, been wounded, been Decorated in Service 54
L20.03 : Honor Rolls - What Names Should Appear - Pictures of Honor Rolls
L21 : [One Year Extra Pay Plan - Payment of Soldiers]
L21.2 : [Massachusetts law - An Act to Provide State Pay for Soldiers and Sailors]
L23.33 : [Soldier’s Business Aid Committee - North Carolina]
L25 : Regimental and Company Funds
L29 : Crowder, E.H. - Rulings re Movement of Men
L30 : Military Training
L31 : Training Camps - Lists, etc. - Officers Camps
L32 : Training Camps - Recreation and Activities
L33 : War Camp Recreation Fund
L34 : Students Army Training Corps
L34.01 : List of High School Graduates - Letter re Student Army Training Corps
L35 : Military training in Secondary Schools
----- : [Wagon Companies] 55
----- : [Newspaper: NY Times 9/1/1918: Who’s Who in our Army on West Front]
L101 : List of Commanding Officers.
L101 : Fort Sheridan Association Letters
L102 : Death of Soldier’s
L103 : [Danger to Released or Discharged soldiers]
L151 : [Machine Gun Formation]
L229.9 : Peach Stones, Fruit Pits, etc. Needed for Manufacture of Gas Masks
L230 : Saw Mill Units
L300 : [Pamphlets on US Navy Recruiting and Naval Invention]
L301 : [Navy and Marine Corps List and Directory]
L302 : Chronometers
L325 : Merchant Marine
L325.07 : Training Men for Merchant Marine Service
L455 : [Pamphlet on Naval Coast Defense Reserve and Volunteer Naval Reserve, and Enrollment in Naval Reserve]
L500 : Letter re Invention of Device to Destroy Submarines
L501 : Binoculars, spyglasses & telescopes, etc.
L505 : Aviation
L600 : [Press Release re Agricultural Students]
M. State Protection
M12 : Connecticut Home Guard - Circulars, General Orders, etc.
M12 : Home guard
M15 : Bulletin - “Are You Helping The Kaiser?”
M18 : Disloyalty
M19 : Men to Serve for Navy Dept.. for Investigating Suspicious Cases 56
M20 : Individual cases of Suspected Disloyalty
M23 : Spies. Espionage
M24 : Pro-German Books, Literature to be Suppressed
M24 : German Propaganda
M24.01 : Hearst publication
M24.02 : [Pamphlet: “Stop Malicious Rumors - Help Win The War”]
M24.03 : [Fake Hoover Letter]
M25 : [Protection For Industrial Plants]
M26 : [Guarding Reservoirs]
M27 : Protection of bridges
M28 : Alien Property
M50 : Registration of Aliens
M54 : Deportation of Aliens
M60 : Desertion - General Correspondence, Circular Letters
M60 : Collective Reports, Bi-Weekly, etc. of Desertions (Arranged by date)
M60 : Desertions - Press Notices
M60 : Deserters - Detection and Apprehension - Draft Evaders 57
M70 : [Volunteer Home Defense Police]
M921.03 : [Massachusetts Legislation re Defense of the Commonwealth]
N. Transportation See Transportation File, Boxes 329-335
P. Sanitation and Medicine
P01 : Committee on Sanitation and Medicine
P12 : Health
P12.01 : Texas Health Survey
P25.32 : NY, State - Enforcement of Quarantine Laws
P26 : Health and Recreation Bureau
P26.06 : Health & Recreation Conferences, 1918 January 25
P26.061 : [Travelers’ Aid Conference]
P27 : Police Women
P27 : [Police Women For Norwich]
P28 : Venereal Diseases, Sex Education, etc.
P28.01 : Connecticut State Farm For Women, East Lyme, Connecticut 58
P30 : Moral Conditions of Training Camps
P31 : Committee on the Protection of Girls
P99 : Physicians
P99 : Volunteer Medical Service Corps
P100 : [Medical Officers Reserve Corps]
P102 : Medical and Surgical Census
P103 : [List of Physicians Subject to Emergency Calls of Manufacturers]
P105 : Owen Bill
P110 : Hospitals - Hospital Interns
P110.01 : Insanity
P110.60 : Canadian Military Hospitals Commission
P111 : Nurses - Press Notices
P111 : Pupil Nurses - (Correspondence with County Chairmen), 1917
----- : Press re Nurses
----- : Nurses - List of Applicants
P111 : Nurses - Hospitals, Requests for Lists, Names, Applicants
P111 : Nurses
P111.1 : Nurses For Spanish Influenza Epidemic
P115 : [Report on Tuberculosis]
P116 : Spanish influenza
P116.01 : [Poster: “To Parent Influenza”]
P125 : Dentists
Q. Committee on Americanization 59
Q : Press Items re Americanization Department
Q01 : Americanization Department - Organization, etc.
Q01 : Lists of Americanization Committees
Q03 : Bill to Establish Department of Americanization
Q04 : Activities of Americanization Department
Q05 : Printed Literature for Circulation Among Foreign Born
Q05 : Connecticut Americanizer
Q05.02 : Americanization: (Published By Department of Interior, Bureau of Education)
Q05.1 : Circulars of Americanization Department
Q05.11 : Un-numbered Circulars of Americanization Department
Q05.2 : Schedules of Americanization Department
Q06 : Minutes of Meetings of Committee on Foreign Born Population
Q06.1 : Meetings of Americanization Committee
Q06.2 : Americanization Conference, 1918 December 11-12
Q08 : Circular Letters of Americanization Department
Q11 : Lists of Foreign Born in Connecticut
Q12 : Americanization (General Material)
Q13 : [Book: Where Garments and Americans are made]
Q16 : [Pamphlet: Teaching English to Aliens]
Q17 : [Americanization Textbooks]
Q18 : [Registration Card for Persons of Foreign Birth]
Q99 : [Memo re teaching French to Registrants]
Q75 : Aliens - Naturalization, etc.
Q100 : German-Americans
Q101 : Italians
Q101.1 : Italian day, 1918 May 24
Q102 : Poles
Q150 : Use of English Language in Schools - Elimination of German
Q150.1 : [Exemptions Concerning Employment of Enemy Aliens in Schools]
Q923.03 : [Pamphlet: Proclamations, Federal and State Penal Laws and War Regulations (Albany, NY)]
Q923.05 : [Service Bulletin - Division of Aliens], 1917 June 4
R. Coal 60
R : Coal
R : Press Items re Fuel Administration
R01 : Personnel of Committees
R06 : [US Fuel Administration and Connecticut Administration Engineering Office - Meeting 12/28/1918 and other Meeting Notices]
R08 : Circular Letters re fuel Administration, Connecticut T.W. Russell
R08.1 : US Fuel Administration Circular
R13 : [Applications for Fuel]
R95 : [Anthracite Coal]
R200 : [Press Release; Restrictions on Highway Construction]
R100 : Soft coal
R300 : Clerical Assistance and Financial Aid which War Bureaus Should Give Fuel Administrations
R600 : Wood for Fires
R601 : Wood Burning in Furnace
R621 : Cut a Cord
R903 : New England Coal Committee
Ra. Fuel Conservation
Ra : Fuel Conservation (Chas. G. Bill, Committee Chairman)
Ra051.1 : Fuel Conservation Circulars
Ra12 : Tag Your Shovel Day, 1918 January 30
Ra13 : Garfield Closing Orders (General Material About)
Ra14 : Orders re Closing of Industries - Curtailing of Hours, etc. - Monday closings
Ra15 : Closing of Saloons 61
Ra16 : “Lighless Nights” - Street Lights, etc.
Ra21 : Coal Savings Posters
Ra50 : Fuel Conservation inspection - W.R.C. Corson, Administrative Engineer
S. Education
S : Education - Patriotic
S03 : [Education Bill S4987]
S11 : [List of School Committees, Boards of Education - plus Letter re Student’s Enlisted Group]
S12 : Teachers
S15 : Evening Schools
S15.1 : [Poster Urging Foreign Born To Learn English and Write a Letter]
S100 : Patriotic work by school children
S250 : Secondary Education
S253 : [Teaching Courses in War Aims]
S378 : Colleges & Universities 62
S378 : College War Statistics
S378.1 : Students in the Service of County - Agriculture or other work
S400 : Employment management courses in colleges
S450 : Vocational Training
S450.05 : Suggested Trades for Disabled Men
T. Women’s Activities
T01 : Committee on Women’s Activities - Reorganization 1918
T01 : Committee on Women’s Activities - Personnel and Organization
T01 : Committee on Women’s Activities - Organization
T01.1 : Organization Committee (of Women’s Committee)
T02 : [Nominations For Subcommittees on women’s Activities]
T04 : Activities of Women’s Committee
T06 : Minutes of Meetings (Women’s Committee)
T06.1 : Meeting of Women War Workers, 1917 December 6
T08 : Circular Letters of Women’s Committee
T12 : “Women and War Work” 63
T35 : Publicity Department
T21 : [Posters: “Women, Your Country Needs You” and “The Ten Commandments of Womanhood’]
T35.3 : [Press release re Victory Conferences Sponsored by Committee on Women’s Activities]
T65 : Red Cross Department of Women’s Committee
T75 : Italian Women’s Committee
T115 : Registration of women
T150 : Speaking by women
T320 : Woman suffrage
T350 : Minute women
T370 : Child welfare
T370.01 : [Children Year Poster]
T371 : [Back to school drive]
T372 : [Feeble minded children]
T390 : Girl’s Conference, July 10, 1918
T500 : [Circular re Future of State Divisions]
T902 : Council of National Defense, Woman’s Committee
V. War Savings
V : War Savings - Press Notices, Pamphlets
V : Letter to Mayor re Purchase of Stamps 64
V : War Savings Miscellany
V01 : War Savings Committee Town Chairmen, Committees, etc.
V06.1 : Vanderlip Meeting, 1917 December 5
V08 : War Savings - Circular Letters, Application Blanks, etc. (list of Posters and folders)
V12 : Prizes for Thrift Campaign
V21 : Posters (War Savings Stamps)
V24 : Economy
V24 : Boston Newspaper’s Refusal to print “Economy Ad”
V25 : Cost of Social Activities in Schools
V26 : War Savings Enlistment Campaign, 1918 June
V27 : War Savings Societies (Connecticut Army of Savers)
V28 : [Press Release re “Army of Savers”]
V150 : Speaker’s outlines on War Savings Campaign
W. War Chests, Solicitation of Funds, Etc..
W12 : Solicitations of War Relief Funds
W13 : National Investigation Bureau 65
W30 : War chests - General Material
W30 : Mr. Wriston’s Notes, memoranda, etc.
W30.01 : “No War Chest” Letters
W30.01 : Other Schemes
W30.01 : War Chests - Correspondence, 2 folders
W30.011 : Red Cross Correspondence re War Chest 66
W30.012 : War Camp Community Service - Correspondence War Chests
W30.013 : YMCA Correspondence re War Chests
W30.014 : War Chests and the Russell Sage Foundation
W30.02 : Questionnaires re War Chests (A-E)
W30.02 : Questionnaire F-Z, 2 folders 67
W30.05 : War Chests (Mr. Wriston) - Clippings
W30.05 : War Chests - Press Data 68
W30.05 : [Copies of Newspapers: 1) Christian Science Monitor, Boston and 2) The Sun, Springfield, Ohio - articles re war chests], 1918 May
W30.06 : War chest meeting, 1918 May 7
W31 : War Chests - Instructions for Workers, Workers Team Cards 69
W32 : Pledge forms, receipt blanks, etc.
W33 : Reports blanks & envelopes
W33 : Application Blanks for Appropriations 70
W34 : Organization - charts, etc.
W35 : Constitutions, by-laws, etc. (War Chests)
W36 : Publicity - (Includes War Chest Songs, etc.)
W37 : Advertisements, Posters, Photographs, Stickers, 2 folders 71
W38 : Window cards 72
W39 : Insignia (badges, buttons, etc.)
W100 : Meriden War Chest
W100 : New Bedford War Chest
W100 : [War Chests - Other States, Other Towns]
W500 : United War Work Campaign Combined Drive - General Material
W500.01 : United War Work Campaign - Correspondence 73
W500.05 : United War Work Campaign - Press Items
W501.02 : War Camp Community Service - Correspondence re People to Represent them on Combined Drive
W502 : War Camp Community Service
W502.01 : Cheney, Austin (Chairman Connecticut War Camp Community Services) - Correspondence
W504 : Y.W.C.A. in War Fund Drive
W505.05 : Knights of Columbus Press Data re Combined Drive (Catholic Part in Combined drive)
WA. Commercial Relations
WA01 : Committee on Commercial Relations - Personnel and Organization
WA200 : Chamber of Commerce Publications
WA200 : War Trade Board
X. Counties
X12 : Duties of County Chairmen and Secretaries
X100 : Fairfield County Association
X100.02 : Suggestions for appointments in Fairfield Co.
X302 : [Litchfield County Auxiliary Committee]
X500.06 : New Haven Co. Committee - Minutes of Meetings
X800.01 : Windham Co. Organization
X918 : Louisiana
X927 : [Boone and Dodge Counties, Nebraska]
X913.01 : Illinois - Organization Chart of State Council of Defense
X936.01 : Oklahoma State Council of Defense
X949.04 : Wisconsin State Council of Defense - Report on Activities
Y. Towns
Y : Community councils
Y01 : Old Lists of Town Committees
Y02 : War Bureaus, Fairfield Co. - Suggestions for Appointments 74
Y04 : Activities of Town Committees - Suggestions, etc.
Y09 : Questionnaires - Remarks and Enquiries re,
Y09 : War Record Questionnaires (Filled out)
Y11 : Local Finance
Y12 : War Bureaus - General Material About.
Y12 : War Bureaus - press Notices 75
Y12.01 : War Bureaus - Personnel Organization
Y15 : War Bureau - Emergency organization
Y16 : Pledges for membership in war bureaus
Y17 : War bureaus should keep their organization intact for work after end of war.
Y25 : Field secretaries
Y26 : Fairfield Co. Field Secretary - Charles F. Greene
Y27 : Hartford Co. Field Secretary - Richard Wayne
Y28 : Litchfield Co. Field Secretary - Floyd L. Vanderpoel
Y29 : Middlesex Co. Field Secretary - Louis S. Smith
Y30 : New Haven Co. Field Secretary - B. F. English
Y31 : New London Co. Field Secretary - Allyn F. Brown
Y32 : Windham and Tolland Co. Field Secretary - Frank J. Brainerd
Y128.1 : Correspondence with Judge Wheeler of Bridgeport War Bureau and Newspaper Clippings re, Fuel Administrator Siemon
Y151 : Clinton
Y166 : Danbury War Bureau
Y170.06 : [Newspaper Clipping re War Meeting]
Y182 : East Hartford
Y198 : Fairfield War Bureau 76
Y200 : [Newspaper Clipping - Farmington Valley Herald]
Y240.08 : Lebanon Patriotic Pilgrimage, September 8, 1918
Y258 : Meriden War Bureau
Y264 : Middletown War Bureau
Y276 : New Britain War Bureau
Y284 : New Haven War Bureau
Y288 : New London War Bureau
Y288 : New London
Y298 : Norwich War Bureau
Y308.09 : Plainville Town Committee - Report
Y324 : Ridgefield War Bureau
Y325 : Rockville War Bureau
Y344 : Simsbury War Bureau
Y368.09 : Thomaston Town Committee Report
Y390 : Waterbury War Bureau
Y404.09 : Wethersfield Town Committee Report
Z. General
Z01 : Bibliography, Publisher’s Announcements, Catalogs, etc.
Z01.01 : Committee on Public Information - Publications (War Workers of Connecticut)
Z02 : War Libraries - Literature for Soldiers
Z05 : [Publications: Atlantic Monthly, Literary Digest, Veterans Journal, and State Guard News] 77
Z05.1 : Material re Official Bulletin
Z06 : War Conferences
Z178 : Liquor Traffic
Z178.1 : Prohibition (Liquor)
Z200 : The War [Publications]
Z202 : Germany and the War [Publications]
Z202 : [Germany and the War - Publications] 78
Z208 : [Italy Today - Women’s Number]
Z209 : [Free Poland]
Z212 : United States in the War
Z212.1 : America’s War Preparations
Z220 : The War Causes, Diplomacy, etc.
Z222 : [Survey of International Relations, Declarations of a State of War]
Z223 : Peace
Z224 : Reconstruction Work
Z226 : [League to Enforce Peace - League of Nations]
Historical Records Department 79
Z230 : Historical Records Department
Z230.03 : Circular Letters, Blanks and Forms of Historical Records Department
Z230.1 : Military Service Record Blanks
Z235 : History of War to be Written
Z235.1 : Pictorial History of the War - Appointment of J. Fred Donne to take charge of work in Connecticut
Z235.1 : Photographs, Maps, etc. Desired by the War Department
Z290 : Religious War Work
Z290.05 : [Bulletin - Salve Regina]
Z310 : [War Record - America and Connecticut]
Z320 : [American Interest in Popular Government Aboard]
Z324.3 : Voting by Soldiers Absent from State
Z326 : Negroes
Z328 : Congressional Director
Z336.24 : Income Tax
Z336.25 : Transportation Tax
Z338.7 : [Corporate Laws of Connecticut]
Z341.2 : Prisioners of War
Z351.2 : Civil Service
Z360.4 : Offers of property, buildings, etc. for Government use
Z361 : Sale of Government Supplies which may be purchased for State Institutions
Z364 : Juvenile Delinquency
Z368.2 : Insurance, Life
Z368.2 : Giddings, H.A. - Letter re Life Insurance for those in Military Service
Z368.9 : War Risk Insurance - Separation Allowances, Dependents, claims for pay, etc. Circular Letters and other Data 80
Z368.9 : Field Investigations for Bureau of war Risk Insurance
Z368.91 : Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Commission
Z381.1 : Chambers of Commerce
Z381.06 : Chambers of Commerce Meetings
Z381.12 : Mr. Maddock’s Circular Letters to officials of Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
Z382 : [Proclamation by Pres. of US - “Exports (Imports) in time of War”]
Z383 : Mail for Soldiers - How to Address Letters, Postage Rates - Postal Service Personal Shipments 81
Z383.1 : Franking Privilege
Z383.2 : Letter to Manufacturers Enclosing Scovill Bulletin - Also Replies, 1917 November 6
Z383.2 : Correspondence Between Connecticut Council and the Manufacturers of Connecticut re Method Employed for Writing Letters to Employees in service - Replies to Letter Sent Aug. 1917
Z383.3 : How to send food or letters to prisoners of war in Germany
Z383.4 : [Christmas Packages for Soldiers]
Z383.5 : [Rural Delivery Service at Cheshire]
Z383.6 : [Monthly Reports of State Board of Examiners of Barbers]
Z390 : [War Trophies to Decorate Village Greens]
Z393 : [Press Release re wearing of armbands to memorialize the War Dead]
Z620 : Public Improvements
Non-War Construction
Z621 : Record Book of Non-War Construction Applications, Compiled by Miss Ferguson
Z621 : Building Construction - General Material
Z621.01 : Non-war Construction - Personnel Local Districts
Z621.02 : Building Construction - Press Material
Z621.03 : State Office to Local Administrators - Circular Letters
Z621.03 : Circular Messages to Local Administrators 82
Z621.041 : Other Circular Letters
-------- : [Survey of war plants, non-war plants, plus Highway Map of Connecticut]
Z621.0411 : Letters Giving of Contractors and Lumber Dealers in Connecticut
Z621.042 : Circular of Other States
Correspondence with Connecticut Districts
Z621.05a : Ansonia District
Z621.05b1 : Bridgeport Applications
Z621.05b1 : Bridgeport District 83
Z621.05b2 : Bristol District
Z621.05d1 : Danbury District
Z621.05d2 : Derby District
Z621.05e : East Hartford District
Z621.05h : Hartford District
Z621.05h : Hartford Applications
Z621.05m : Manchester District
Z621.05m5 : Meriden District
Z621.05m3 : Middletown District
Z621.05n : New Britain District
Z621.05n3 : New Haven District
Z621.05n3 : New Haven Applications
Z621.05n5 : New London District 84
Z621.05n7 : Norfolk District
Z621.05n9 : Norwalk District
Z621.05n11 : Norwich District
Z621.05p : Putnam District
Z621.05r : Rockville District
Z621.053 : Stanford District
Z621.05t : Thomaston District
Z621.05t2 : Torrington District
Z621.05w : Wallingford District
Z621.05w3 : Waterbury District
Z621.05w3 : Waterbury Applications 85
Z625.05w4 : Westbrook District
Z621.05w5 : Willimantic District
Z621.05w7 : Windsor District
Z621.05w9 : Winsted District
Z621.06 : Washington Correspondence
Richard L. Humphries, War Industries Board, Building Material Section
Labor Division (Hugh Frayne)
Edwin B. Parker - War Industries Board, Priorities Comm.
Other than Preceding folders.
With War Industries Board (H.R. Mc Lennan, etc.)
Housing Corporation
War Industries Board (B.M. Baruch Chairman)
Council of National Defense
Z621.07 : Permits Pending, Washington
Z621.071 : Applications Referred to S.P. Bush of War Industries Board 86
Z621.072 : War Resources Committee, Connecticut
Z621.073 : Permits Pending with Bradford D. Pierce - also Correspondence
Z621.074 : Bridgeport Sub - Regional Chairman, C. E. Bilton
Z621.074 : Hartford Sub - Regional Chairmen, R. H. Schutz
Z621.074 : New Haven Sub - Regional Chairmen, I.N. Ullman
Z621.074 : New London and Windham Counties, Sub - Regional Chairman
Z621.08 : Correspondence other than Washington, or Outside of Districts
Z621.08 : Mr. Ferguson’s Personal File
Z621.081 : Mailing Room Instructions, Requisitions, etc.
Z621.09 : Reports of Local Administrators and of State Chairmen
Z621.1 : Building of New Advertising Signs
Z621.3 : Highway Construction Work
Z621.3 : Connecticut Highway Commissioners, Correspondence
Z623.1 : War Industries Board, Rulings re Special Articles
Z623.11 : Shoe Prices, Shoe Dealers in Connecticut
Z623.2 : [Clipping re War Resources Committee]
Z623.3 : [Government Notice re Local War Industries Committee]
Z626 : [Letter from Charles H. Owen re: Plea to Publicize the Need for Inventive People with Ideas]
Z627 : Water Waste
Z627.4 : Correspondence with G.H. Gilpatrick, F.A. Mazzur Co., Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. and Mr. Porter of Council of National Defense, re Putnam Electric Motor Proposition, 1917 December-1918 January
Z634.91 : Need of Walnut Wood
Z640 : Lunch Room
Z655 : [Foreign Language Printers]
Z800 : [Well Known Authors]
Z912.4 : [Literary Digest with Latest War Maps]
Z912.76 : Map of Hartford
Z920 : [Resume of Tell A Turner, Resolution re O.S. Freeman, Satire of Kaiser]
Z620c : [Miss Margaret T. Corwin]
Z920g : [Press Release re: Major Howard A. Giddings, Governor Holcombe Message to the Troops, Food Situation in England, George C. Grawford, Annual Meeting of the National Association of State Librarians]
Z920ro : Resolutions re Theodore Roosevelt
Z920s : Press Release re Speeches by Julius G. Stremlan of Connecticut Council of Defense
Z920w : Correspondence re Judge Wheeler’s War Rally Speech
Z921 : [Photographs of: Gen. G.M. Cole, Hon. Homer S. Cummings, Woodrow Wilson, R.H.M. Robinson of Bridgeport] 87
Z929.6 : [Meaning of Army Ribbons]
Z929.7 : Flag
Z929.8 : Service Flags, Mother’s Emblems, etc.
Z930 : Trophies From Battlefields for War Bureau
Z930 : War Trophies
2. Index to classified file, 1917-1919
Alphabetical card index to Item 1 above. Includes references also to other series, some unidentified or lost.
A - Cow Card drawer 1
Cr - Mec Card drawer 2
Med - Th Card drawer 3
To - Z Card drawer 4
3. Correspondence with Council of Defense offices, 1917-1919
Some of the material is indexed in item 2 above.
Box
Council of National Defense, Washington 88-89
Council of Defense (Correspondence with the State Council and its Committees)
Americanization - Education 90
Finance - Food Supply 91
Food Supply - Publicity 92
Publicity - War Savings 93
Women's Committee - Women's Activities 94
Circular letters to local agencies
Circular letters to county committees 95
Town War Bureaus
Andover - Canterbury 96
Canton - Greenwich 97
Griswold - Middlefield 98
Middletown - New Haven 99
New Haven - Pomfret 100
Portland - Torrington 101
Trumbull - Woodstock 102
Other state councils, city councils, and county councils 103
Town and county bulletins and reports 104-106
4. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1917-1919
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent (either individuals or agencies, e.g. Council of Defense (Washington), Connecticut State, etc.)
A - As 107
At - Bi 108
Bl - Bro 109
By - Cha 110
Cha - Cl 111
Co - Conn. State Librarian 112
Conn. State T - Dl 113
Do - Fe 114
Fi - Gay 115
Ge - Hal 116
Ham - Int 117
Io - La 119
Mar - Na 120
Ne - Newspapers 121
Newspapers - Noo 122
Nor - Per 123
Ph - Red 124
Red - Sc 125
Se - Ste 126
Ste - U.S. Employment Service 127
U.S. Entomology Bureau - U.S. House 128
U.S. House - Wes 129
Wh - Z 130
5. Reference file, 1917-1919
Copies of bulletins, releases, posters, pamphlets and other publications of Connecticut and United States agencies, institutions and businesses pertaining to the war effort.
Arranged roughly alphabetical by subject of publishing agency. At the end are Committee on Public Information ("Creel Committee") publications: Official Bulletin; War Information Series, "Red, white and blue series". An incomplete list of folder titles is in the first box.
Agriculture - General 131
Agriculture - US Department of
Bees
Diseases
Protection
Cotton
Diseases
General
Dairy
General
Milk
Cheese
Herds
Draft
Farming
General
Farm Labor
Cost of Producing Farm Products
Preparations for Farm Lands
Fruits
Nuts
Grains
[General]
Corn
Wheat
Insects
Markets
Poultry
General
Eggs
Seeds
General
Vegetable
General
Game Regulations
Lumber
Cattle Diseases
Shipment of Stock
Stockyard Regulations
Beans
Food for Cattle
Sheep
[General]
Sheep Wool
Weekly News Letter 132
Americanization
Address by Theodore Roosevelt
“Be a Truth Teller” - Americanization Section of the Council of National Defense
Americanization Insurance Policy - national Americanization Comm..
Americanization Day - Fourth of July - US Bureau of Education
“What Women’s Organizations can do” - US Bureau of Education
“Americanize the Immigrant” - American Book Co.
Americanization in
Delaware - Delaware council of Defense
New Orleans, La. - Americanization Day
Pennsylvania - Penn. Council of Nat Defense
Cleveland chamber of Commerce Americanization Work
Sharon, Pa - “The Americanizer” - Valley Americanization Comm.
New York - National security League - Americanization War Work
Hartford, Conn. - Americanization Inaugural message - Marcus H. Holcomb
Americanizing a City - Detroit Board of Commerce and Education
Plan of Factory Co-operation - Americanization Comm. Detroit Board Commerce
Committee on Public Safety - New Hampshire Comm. on Americanization
Ohio State Council of Defense
New York - Americanization Program, National Comm. 133
Cleveland - Slovaks of, Cleveland Comm.
Cleveland - Americanization Program
Delaware - Americanization Program
Americanization Program - California Comm. of immigration and housing
Hartford - ‘Understand, Sympathize, Assist” Mayors Americanization Comm.
New Britain, Conn. - American Ideals
“War Facts on Americanization” - Conn. State Council of Defense
New Hampshire Americanization Comm.
“US immigration Service Bulletin” - US Department of Labor
Bulletin of the Board of Education, Department of university Extension
“Americanization Bulletin” - Department of Interior
“To Americans” - American League Citizenship
War Facts on Americanization - National Committee of One Hundred
“Americanizing Industrial Workers” - Manufacturer’s Record
Industrial Americanization Organization Chart
The Americanization of Our Foreign Born - Columbia Graphone Manufacturing Co..
“America Most Favored Nation” by Rev. George Pentecost.
Babies: “The Well Baby Primer” by Elizabeth Memorial Fund
Birds
Boys - on farms - Penna. Council of Defense
“Boys Life”
“Scouting”
Bench and Board - by Pratt & Whitney, Hartford
Building After The War - US Department of Labor
Bulletins
Charity organization, New York
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.
Conn. Temperature Union
General Chemical Bulletin
Bulletin to the School - University of the State of New York
“The Bulletin” - New York State Industrial Commission
“Business Bulletin” - Minneapolis Public Library
“Connecticut bulletin” - Conn. State Council of Defense
Labor Market Bulletins
“Triangle News”
War Library Bulletin
“US Employment Service Bulletin” - US Service of the Department of Labor 134
“War Bulletins” - Conn. State Council of Defense
Chamber of Commerce of US of America
“Chicago Commerce” - Chicago Assoc. of Commerce
“The Detroiter” - Detroit Board of Commerce
Orders - Interstate Commerce Commission
San Francisco - Chamber of Commerce Activities
“For Waterbury” - Waterbury Chamber of Commerce
“Members Bulletin” - Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Assoc.
“News Bulletin” - Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
“Outline Course in Citizenship” - US Dept. of Labor
Pamphlets - Citizenship
Catalogues - [Cutter Desk Co. Buffalo, NY]
Keystone Stereographs - Keystone View Co.
Community Survey Morgan Memorial Parish, Boston, and Treasurers Annual report 1918
Councils of Defense - State
“Alabama Defense Record”
“Arizona Service Bulletin”
Colorado - Use of the German League of America
Connecticut - “Hail France”
Statement of New Haven War Bureau
Liberty Songs
”Why We Are At War With Germany”
Idaho - Official Press Bulletins
Illinois
“State Council News”
Bulletin No 34A: “War History Comm.”
Iowa - ”A Day of Judgment”
Minnesota
America
“Minnesota in the War”
“Missouri on Guard” 135
Montana - Orders (2 folders)
“Ohio in the War”
Oklahoma
“South Dakota on Duty”
Utah
Wisconsin - “Forward”
Wyoming
Alabama - Pamphlets
Arizona - Posters
Illinois - Publicity Dept.
Iowa - Circulars
Council of National Defense
“National Defense”
“News Letter” - Women’s Division
Bulletin
Information Circulars - Field Division
Conference of Community Forces and Reconstruction - Community Councils of National Defense
Department of the Interior
Draft
Editorial - “The Chicago Tribune”
Education
Bureau of Education - Dept. of the Interior
“School Life: - Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Education
Price List Government Publications, Superintendent of Documents, Washington
List - Industrial Plants Offering English for Foreigners
Industrial Plants and Education of their Employees
“Vocational Education” - Federal Board of Vocational Education (2 folders)
Report on Evening Schools - [Conn.] State Board of Education
Short Unit Courses - Board of Education of the City of New York
“Democracy’s Educational Problem” - National Security League, New York
Pennsylvania State Education Assn. - Program, 1918
“Industrial Education” - National Association of Manufacturers
A National program for Education - National Education Association, Washington
“The Vocational Summary” - Federal Board for Vocational Education 136
Vocational School, New London
Employment
“Administration of Public Employment Bureaus” - Public Employment Bureau, new York
Employment Rules - Industrial Commission of Wisconsin
Food
US Food Administration - Washington
“Official Statement”
Conservation Notes
US Dept.. of Agriculture
Canning
Sugar
Fuel - US Fuel Administration, Washington.
Fuel Publication
Fuel Facts
General
Clay and Lime
Coal General
Coal Prices
Coal Saving
Anthracite Coal Prices
Anthracite - General
Mine and Miners
Bituminous Coal - General 137
Bituminous Coal - Prices
Charcoal
Coke - General
Coke - Prices
Electricity
Oils
Gasoline
Non-Use of Motor Vehicles
Gasoline Savings
Petroleum
Natural Gas
Wood General
Girls
Campfire Girls
Girl Scout Organization Literature
“The Rally” - Scouting Magazine for the American Girl”
“Wohelo” - Magazine for the Camp Fire Girls
Health
Public Health Nurse
“Philosophy of Health” by J.H. Tilden, M.D., Denver, Colorado
“National Effectiveness and Health Insurance”
US Public Health Service
“Keep Them Fit”
“Social Hygiene Monthly”
Spanish Influenza - Health Reports
Malaria - Health Reports
Venereal Disease - Health Reports
Posters - Influenza
Monthly List Publications
“Unregulated Cheap Lodging Houses” - Civic League of St. Louis
Immigrants 138
Housing Pamphlet - Commission on Immigration and housing of California
Prospectus of the Lowell Normal Method Course for Teachers of Immigrants in Evening Classes
Prince List naturalization Publication, etc.
“Who is Your Neighbor?” Mass. Bureau of Immigration
North America Civic league for Immigration - Federal Bureau of Distribution
Educational Facilities for Assimilation
Lectures and Instructions for Immigrant Education H.H. Wheaton, Yale School of Religion
City’s Responsibility to Immigrant - Bureau of Education, Dept. of Interior
Courses for the Immigrant
“How we Receive th Immigrant” - Rev. C.L. Mc Kee, United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pa.
Immigrant Reports - US Bureau of Education
Outline of Education of Adult Immigrants
US Bureau of Education and the Immigrant
Immigrant Women
“Know Your Enemy” Committee
Labor
US Department of Labor
“Children’s Year”
General
Bulletin No. 9
Pamphlets
Chamber of Commerce of US
Engineering Methods Must Replace Paternalism in the Hanling of Labor
Draft Report of Committee on Labor Exchanges
Actual Account of What We Have Done to Reduce labor Turnover
Legislation
Acts - Legislation
Bills - Miscellaneous, House of representatives and Senate
Bills - Dept. of Interior
“Labor Laws in War Time” - American Assoc. for Labor Legislation
“American labor Legislation on Review” - American Assoc. for labor Legislation
Laws of Conn. Relating Bakeshops, Elevators, factories and Factory Inspection
Laws Relating to Local and State Fire Marshals - [Conn.] State Police Dept.
Executive Proclamations and War Legislation Commonwealth on Massachusetts
Documents on American Oriental Relations - to the President and Congress of US by Federal Council of Churches of Christ.
Liberty Chrouses and Community Singing - Council of National Defense
List - Employers and Industrial Men Interested in Americanization
List - Manufacturer’s Assn. Officers, Directors, etc.
Magazines
“America” - Catholic Review of the Week
“Literary Digest”
National Americanization Committee - “Why Factory Classes Pay”
National Committee of Patriotic Societies
National League for Women’s Service
National Security League
Bulletin
Miscellaneous
[“Patriotism Through Education”]
Naturalization
Newspapers 139
“Bridgeport Advocate”
“Corriere Del Connecticut”
“Il Cittadino”
News Releases
Hemstreet’s Press Clipping Bureau
Pamphlets
Miscellaneous
American library Assoc.
“Army Supply Record” - Washington
“As Others See Us” - Westcott and Mapes, Consulting, Constructing, etc..
Chautauqua Quarterly
“Trumbull Cheer” - Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Co., Plainville
Patriotic Plays and Pageants
Posters - General
Proclamation - Commonwealth of Iowa
Public Information - Committee on, Washington DC
Red Cross
American Red Cross Council
Bulletins
Rehabilitation
Reports
Extract from Twelth Annual Report of the Reclamation Service
Federal Trade Committee, US Chamber of Commerce
School Report - Town of Southington, Conn., 1918
Town of Watertown, Conn., 1917-1918
Safety
Suggestions for Safety Training - Bureau of Education 140
National Safety Council
Bulletins
“Safety News”
Weekly Letters
Posters - General
General
Accidents
Clothes
Diseases
Elevators
Eyes
Feet
Fire
Hands
Ladders
Machinery
Teeth
Yards
Schools
Evening schools and Extension work - Pittsburg Public Schools, 1916-1917
Military School and the War by William Mather Lewis
Public Evening Schools, Courses of Instruction Bridgeport
School House as a Community Center - by Margaret Woodrow Wilson
“School Life”
Slides - Lantern
Slides - Miscellaneous
Songs - Miscellaneous
Speech by Franklyn Lane, Delivered at Hotel Astor New York City
Statistics - Circular 30,31,32,34 - Dept. of Interior
Trade Secretaries Manufacturers Club - Pennsylvania
Vocabulary - for Non-English speakers, Bethlehem Steel Co.
War Club, Outline of - Activities for National Factories
War Garden Commission, National - Washington, DC
War Industries Board
War Information - General
War Information - Service
War Problems of the War - by Harriet N. Bircholdt
War Risk Insurance
War Risk Insurance Bureau Literature [In a brown wrapper]
“What America Has Done in this War,” “What France Has Given to Win the War”, “Mighty First of British Empire” - by Girard
War Trade Board 141
General
“Trading with the Enemy”
Exports - General
Imports - General
Journal
YWCA
War Work Bulletin
“Association Monthly”
Pamphlets - War Work Council
YMCA - “Association Men”
[War Pamphlets - Insurance, War Aims, Speeches, etc..]
“US Official Bulletin” - published by the Committee on Public Information, Washington
Committee on Public Information - Washington - Publications 146
List of Publications
Pres. Wilson’s Address to Congress, 1917 April 2
Red, White, and Blue Series of Pamphlets No.’s 8,9,10 plus several unnumbered (one pamphlet in German, Italian Polish)
War Information Series of Pamphlets - No.’s 1-8,10-16,21
War Trade Board - Bulletins and Pamphlets and War Trash Board Journal 147
Series 2. Executive Department
Box
6. Organizational materials, 1917-1919 148
Mimeographed documents: "Report of Committee on Organization...June 6, 1917"; Notes on War Bureaus, July 15, 1918"; "Report on Organization and Activities of State Councils of Defense", June 18, 1917 (by Council of National Defense, Section on Cooperation with States), and "report of the Prudential Committee on Continuance of Activities, Monday, November 25, 1918" (signed by "Budget Committee"). Also, photostat copy of proposed organization chart, mimeographed address lists of council and committee members and local boards and committees (multiple copies), and two copies of the published report of the Council, compiled by Henry M. Wriston and others: Report of the Connecticut State Council of Defense, December 1918 (Hartford, 1919).
7. Budget and finance records, 1917-1919 149
Financial notes from minutes of the Council of Defence, 1917 May 8-1919 February 3, 1 binder
Includes subject index.
Budget, monthly, 1018 July-1919 January, 1 folder
Record of expenditures, 1917 December 1-1918 January 25, 1 folder
Record of expenditures, 1918 February-1919 February, 1 binder
8. Smileage book accounts, 1918-1919 150-151
Smileage books, paid for by public contributions, were coupon books given to soldiers to purchase entertainment. Included here are sales and order books, ledger, cash books, bank statements, check books, bills and receipts, and sales and publicity materials.
9. Purchasing Department papers, 1918-1919 152
Fragmentary materials, including correspondence, paid invoices, furniture inventories, etc.
10. Mail Room records, 1917-1919 152-154
Daily work reports, address lists, record of outgoing mail, registered mail receipts and record of incoming mail, etc.
11. Mail Room copies of documents mimeographed and distributed, 1917-1919
In five groups, arranged numerically or alphabetically by code (unknown) or subject.
Many are marked with the number of copies distributed.
File A, Numbers 10-150 155
File A, Numbers 170-230 156
File B, A-M 157
File B, N-Z 158
File C, A-G 159
File C, G-W 160
File D 161
File E, A-G 162
File E, G-Z 163
12. "Collected materials", 1917-1919 164
This series, like others titled "Collected materials", appears to have been accumulated and filed over a period extending perhaps as late as 1924, although nearly all the papers originated during the war period. The Historical Records Department, begun in the fall of 1918, had the responsibility for "gathering in the files of correspondence and other matter in the possession of the various committees whose work is being wound up." A subject outline was drawn up to guide the collecting and filing (see Wriston, Connecticut State Council of Defense, pp. 90-91). The ambitious plan was not carried out fully, but the War Records Department of the State Library apparently did recieve, maintain and enlarge a substantial body of material resulting from this effort. Lists in record Group 12, Entry VII, 8, throw light on this. In the course of many moves of the collection over the years and as a result of poor storage conditions and neglect, the records became badly disarranged. The segments that have now been found, though probably once part of a single "classified" file, are now associated, so far as possible, with the other papers of the departments to which they refer and from which they came (see below items 19, 20, 32, 36, 37, 42, 43, 59, 63, 64, 70, 72 and 89).
The "collected materials" include a wide range of items: correspondence, memoranda, directives, minutes, account books, press releases, publications, clippings, photographs, flags, banners, posters, blank forms, letterheads, envelopes, rubber stamps, etc. Many items were acquired in multiple copies, and substantial duplication still exists, both within the "collected materials" and between them and other files. The State Library collated groups of duplicate materials and offered them to other libraries (see RG 12, VII, 3)
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Series 3. Americanization Department
Box
13. Correspondence
Correspondence between the Department and local officials and agencies (alphabetical by town), United State Government offices, non-governmental agencies and individuals, and agencies in other states.
Correspondence with Local Officials and Agencies
Andover - New Hartford 165
New Haven - Woodstock 166
Correspondence with other Organizations
Connecticut (State) 167
Organizations (Connecticut)
Federation of Labor
Manufacturer's Assoc. of Connecticut
State Chamber of Commerce
State Board of Education
State Council of Defense
Form Letters
Americanization Committee
Budget Committee
Industrial Committee
Dept. of Publicity
Treasury Dept.
Bureau War Exhibits
Woman's Division
Connecticut State Library
Foreign Countries
Alaska
Hawaii
Italy
Mexico
United States
Alabama-New York State
Includes Washington, D.C.
New Mexico-Wyoming 168
14. Subject file, 1917-1919
Correspondence, reports, forms, speeches, press releases, mailing lists, etc.
Addresses
RM Bissell, Conference, 1918 December 11
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
R.E. Fagan, Danbury, 1919 March 30
S.H. Holmes, Conference, 1918 December 12
Davis L. Summey, Waterbury
Working Men’s Club, Hartford, Conn.
Rockville Chamber of Commerce
Articles
Americanization Though Education
Memorandum re Exploitation of Aliens in Conn. with the Draft
Pending Americanization Bill
Assignments
Unfinished - Daniel Radam
Banks
Russian Consul vs. Stephen Drobofzky, Ansonia
Blue Prints
Exhibition Space, Charter Oak Park, Connecticut State Council of Defense
Bolshevism
Bonds
Lilienthal, NYC vs. Harry Palko, Ansonia
Cards, Survey
Complaints
Martin Cymerys, Hartford vs. Att’y Stephen A. Macheinski, NYC
Anthony Zarnota, Hartford vs. Att’y H. Hunt, Hartford
Insurance
Russian Brotherhood, Ansonia vs. Nikita Sutkovoy, Ansonia
Steam Ship Ticket Agents
Zackorobitz vs. Zero
Thefts
Thefts
Zackorobitz vs. Zero
Circulars [State Council of Defense]
#1,#2,#3,#4,#5
Connecticut's Progress Toward Americanization
Americanization Must Include
Sent With Form Letters to Clergy
Form letters
War Bureaus, Circular
Conference, Americanization, 1918 December 11-12
Proceedings
Resolution
Statement re the Conference
Programs
Luncheon
Invitations
Newspaper Clippings
To Those Invited to the Conference
Speeches:
H.H. Wheaton - Outline
Stanley H. Holmes
Questions for Discussion
Forms
Forms - Misc.
Sample Forms - Misc.
Questionnaires - Bureau of Education, Dept. of Interior
Questionnaires
Sample Forms - Housing
Form letters
To Chairmen of Americanization Committees
To Menbers of Americanization Committee
To Clergy of Connecticut
To Editor
To Manufacturers and Industrialists of Hartford
Sent by Chairmen
War Bureaus
Hand Bills
Proposed
English, Italian, Polish
Slovak, French, Hungarian, Yiddish
Italian
Manchester Evening School
Allotment to Towns Having Evening School
Form Letters
Superintendent of Schools
Chairmen, Americanization Committee
Immigration
Courses of Instructions
To the United States from 1899 to 1915
Investigation
Steamship ticket agents
Report on return on foreigners to Europe
Legislation
Outline of a proposed bill to establish a Department of Americanization
A bill to establish a Department of Americanization
Bills - Miscellaneous
Circulars - Connecticut Chamber of Congress legislation
Legislation - Miscellaneous
Some of the reasons why State Americanization work should not be placed under State educational authorities
Brief in favor of Senate Bills Nos. 366 & 363
Letterheads
General
Lists
Committees on education & appropriation
Persons invited to hearing and subjects to be discussed
Senators & representatives connected with War Bureaus or Americanization Committees
Members, Educational Committee
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Jewish organizations - Hartford
Those pledging to attend night school
Membership, Polish National Alliance Society, Hartford, Conn.
Agencies requesting Connecticut Council of Defense to place them on mailing list
Chairmen, Americanization Committees
Banks in Connecticut
Books on immigration
Catholic clergy in Connecticut
Cities having evening schools, U.S.
Chairmen, Americanization Committees in towns having evening schools
Chairmen, Americanization Committees, State Councils of Defense
Chairmen, Local women's committees, State Council of Defense
Chambers of Commerce
Committees on Americanization
Connecticut State Council of Defense
District, Town and City Superintendents
Evening schools
Foreign language speakers for Liberty Loan Campaign
Industries from Chamber of Commerce Bulletins interested in Americanization
Foreign language newspapers published
Foreign speakers from war rallies
American Loyalty Commission. Com. on Foreign Born, Connecticut State Council of Defense
Hungarian leaders
Italian leaders
Italian societies
Invited - Americanization Meeting New Haven War Bureau
Liberty Choruses of Connecticut
Connecticut Americanizer
Motion Picture Theatres in Connecticut
Persons attending luncheon of Savings" Banks Association of Connecticut
Persons interested in Americanization
Mailing list of Schedule No. 4
Racial organizations
Subsidiary companies of United States Rubber Co.
Towns having evening schools, Connecticut
Members, House and Senate, Connecticut, 1919
Superintendent in towns having evening schools
Americanization chairmen, Women's Committee, Connecticut Council of Defense
War Bureaus having Americanization Committees
War Bureaus, Connecticut State Council of Defense
Minutes 169
Committee on Americanization
Executive Committee meeting