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RG 040, Post-War Planning Board
Inventory of records
Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
Copyright © 2007 by the Connecticut State Library
Overview of the Collection |
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| Repository: | Connecticut State Library |
| Creator: | Connecticut. Post-War Planning Board |
| Title: | Post-War Planning Board records |
| Dates: | 1943-1945 |
| Quantity: | 5 cubic feet |
| Abstract: | The Post-War Planning Board, authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of June 2, 1943, was established to study problems of post-war readjustment and reconversion in the state and formulate plans to deal with them. |
| Identification: | RG040 |
| Accession: | T002693 |
| Language: | The records are in English. |
Historical Note
Authorized by an act of the General Assembly in June 1943, the Post–War Planning Board’s charge was “to study and formulate plans for the readjustment and reconversion of agriculture, manufacturing, business and mercantile activities within the state from a wartime to a peacetime basis.” An appointed Board of fourteen, headed by President Charles Seymour of Yale, was supplemented by committees of business and community leaders in various fields and by a small executive and research staff headed by Herbert L. Crapo. The Board met twenty times from September 22, 1943 to June 19, 1945. It completed an Interim Report to the Governor in October 1944 and a Final Report was published in 1946, both under the title Post-War Connecticut. The Board legally ceased to exist on July 1, 1945.
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Scope and Content
The record group consists of minutes of meetings, September 22, 1943-June 19, 1945; correspondence, working papers and drafts of reports; newspaper clippings and other reference materials; photographs; completed confidential employment and planning surveys; and subcommittee records.
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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.
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 005:029, Office of the Governor, Raymond E. Baldwin, 1943-1945, files headed "Post-War Planning Board".
RG 049, Records of the Veternans Advisory Commission, 1943-1949.
RG 050 Records of the War Council, 1940-1945.
The Board's "Research Data" files (described in document M-144; see Item 1) were evidently kept by the Development Commission.
The State Library has in its collections copies of the Board's interim report, a printed summary titled Quick Facts, its final report and some research studies.
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Administrative Information
Provenance
The Board legally ceased to exist on July 1, 1945, and its files apparently went to the Development Commission, which turned some of them over to the State Library in August 1945.
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Container List
| Records, 1943-1945 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 1. "Records", 1943 June 2-1945 June 30 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Contains mimeographed records of the Board, including minutes of some meetings, reports to the Board by staff officers and committees, the Act creating the Board (M-1), its Interim Report (printed; M-115), and a report on its records (M-144). Minutes of Board meetings are in Item 2. | |||||||||||
| Arranged numerically (M-1 to M-144) and approximately chronologically in two binders (M-115 separate). A numerical list is in the first binder. | |||||||||||
| 2. Minutes of meetings, 1943 September 22-1945 June 19 | |||||||||||
| Contains mimeographed copies of minutes of meetings of the Board. | |||||||||||
| Chronological. | |||||||||||
| 3. Correspondence, 1943-1945 | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical by correspondent or, in a few cases, by subject (e.g. employment, Housatonic Valley Parkway, statistical index (under "index"), mailing list, office staff, etc.). | |||||||||||
| A-F | 2 | ||||||||||
| G-M | 3 | ||||||||||
| N-Z | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4. General file, 1943-1945 | |||||||||||
| Contains correspondence, working papers, minutes, reference materials and other papers pertaining to the work of the Board and the preparation of its recommendations. | |||||||||||
| Meetings | 5 | ||||||||||
| Minutes | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||
| Releases (and clippings) | |||||||||||
| Reports of the Directors to the Board | |||||||||||
| Seymour, Charles | 6 | ||||||||||
| Waugh, Albert E. | |||||||||||
| Committees (General) | |||||||||||
| Drafting | |||||||||||
| Legislative | |||||||||||
| Liaison | |||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||
| Policy and Programs | |||||||||||
| Public Information | |||||||||||
| Committees (Substantive) | |||||||||||
| Community Development and Housing | |||||||||||
| Education | |||||||||||
| Finance | 6-7 | ||||||||||
| Industry and Labor | 7 | ||||||||||
| Medical Care and Health | |||||||||||
| Public Utilities and Transportation | 8 | ||||||||||
| Public Works | 8-9 | ||||||||||
| Recreation | 9 | ||||||||||
| Rural Life and Agriculture | |||||||||||
| 5. Employment and planning survey reports, 1944 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Contains form questionnaire replies from companies concerning estimates of employees required and construction and development plans for the immediate post-war period. Most are marked "NG" (no good?). | |||||||||||
| Unarranged. | |||||||||||
| 6. Personal history statements of Board and Committee members, 1944 | |||||||||||
| Contains form statements of education and business and public experience. There are some photographs. | |||||||||||
| 7. Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Includes correspondence with State departments on administrative and other matters, and reference materials on post-war planning. | |||||||||||