WWII Emergency War Boards and Committees, WWII EWBC
Abstract
The WWII Emergency War Boards and Committees Collection includes records from government
and civic organizations established to mitigate the effects of World War II. The boards
and committees include: Federal emergency war agencies, Office of Price Administration;
War Production Board; Office of War Information; British War Relief Society, Raleigh
Committee; and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.
The records include correspondence, manuals, newsletters, and meeting minutes.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Emergency War Boards and Committees
- Call Number
- WWII EWBC
- Creator
- Unknown
- Extent
- 21 cubic feet
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Restrictions on Access & Use
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions on accessing this collection.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on using this collection.
Biographical/Historical
A Collector of War Records was appointed in October 1942 to coordinate the state's efforts in collecting and preserving the records pertaining to North Carolina and its citizens, and their part in World War II. As a result of the collector's efforts, sixty eight (68) of North Carolina's counties are represented; most of the other records were collected by civic clubs, patriotic societies, Army camps, offices of civilian defense, and newspaper editors.
Contents of the Collection
1. Federal emergency war agencies: organizational charts of executive branch,1942, 1944
2. Office of Price Administration
3. War Production Board
Scope and Contents note:
records of the North Carolina State Salvage Committee, including manual titled, "Salvage for Victory"; eight issues of The Tar Heel Scrapper, weekly newsletter: November 25, 1942-March 22, 1944; two issues of The Scrapper, newsletter of the War Production Board, n.d.; directives from the War Production Board, 1942-1943, n.d.; and information re. the Junior Commando Club, Winston-Salem
4. Office of War Information
5. British War Relief Society, Raleigh Committee
Scope and Contents note:
Papers of Mrs. Z. P. Metcalf, co-chair, including letters from British children, 1942-1945, and letters from Senator Clyde R. Hoey and Rep. Harold D. Cooley, 1945. Mrs. Metcalf was also a member of Raleigh committee of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies; the papers include her desk calendar, 1939, with notes concerning the committee.
6. Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Chapel Hill Committee,1936, 1939-1942, n.d.
Scope and Contents note:
Papers of William T. Couch, director of the University of North Carolina Press, who served as secretary of the Chapel Hill Committee and as chairman of the Southern Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. He was also active in the Fighting Funds for Finland movement in 1940. Correspondents include Senators Josiah W. Bailey, James F. Byrnes, Claude Pepper, Robert R. Reynolds, and Millard E. Tydings; Representatives Harold D. Cooley and Carl T. Durham; and Martha Boswell, Struthers Burt, Jonathan Daniels, Clark M. Eichelberger, Louis Graves, George Watts Hill, Francis P. Miller, Lewis Mumford, and William Allen White.
7. Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Asheville Committee
Scope and Contents note:
Papers of Gordon Robertson, chairman, and Mrs. T. Evans Baxter, chair of women's division, June-December 1940