WWI Liberty Loan Campaign Records, WWI LLC

Abstract

Papers related to the Liberty Loans Campaign in North Carolina during World War I (1916-1919). Collection consists of government publications, correspondence with county chairpersons, and records of the Speakers' Bureau.

Descriptive Summary

Title: WWI Liberty Loan Campaign Records
Call Number: WWI LLC
Creator: North Carolina Historical Commission
Date: 1917-1920
Extent: 3.6 cubic feet
Repository: State Archives of North Carolina

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➤ Container Count 9 Boxes

• WWI Liberty Loan Campaign, General Records

WWI Liberty Loan Campaign Records

• War Savings Stamps Campaign

War Savings Stamps Campaign

• Woman's Liberty Loan Committee: General correspondence, 1918-1919; Correspondence with county chairpersons, Alamance-Durham

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

• Correspondence with county chairpersons, Edgecombe- Northampton, 1918-1919

Correspondence,Edgecombe-Northampto

• Correspondence with county chairpersons, Onslow-Yancey, 1918-1919

Correspondence, Onslow-Yancey

• Speakers' Bureau: correspondence of R. D. W. Connor; Correspondence, Third Liberty Loan, March-May 1918; Correspondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, September 1918

Speakers' Bureau Correspondence

• Correspondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, October-November 1918; Correspondence, Victory Loan, February-June 1919

Correspondence, Fourth Liberty Loan

• Papers of Mary G. Shotwell

Papers of Mary G. Shotwell

• Guilford County War Savings Committee: Correspondence

Guilford Co, War Savings Committee

General Records:

Bond sale statistics, 1917-1918

Correspondence, 1918-1919

Government publications, publicity materials, and other records related to liberty loan campaigns, 1917-1919

Lists of county chairpersons, 1917, 1919, n.d.

News releases from Office of Secretary of the Treasury, May-June 1917

Newspaper clippings, 1917-1919

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, Fourth Campaign:

Correspondence with county chairpersons, Alamance-Durham, 1918-1919

Correspondence with county chairpersons, Edgecombe-Northampton, 1918-1919

Correspondence with county chairpersons, Onslow-Yancey, 1918-1919

Speakers' Bureau: correspondence of R. D. W. Connor, chairman of the Speakers Committee, N.C. Council of Defense, who arranged speakers for the second war fund campaign of the American Red Cross, school commencement exercises, and the Third Liberty Loan during the spring of 1918. Prior to the Fourth Liberty Loan in September 1918, Connor was appointed chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Central Liberty Loan Committee for North Carolina. He served in the same capacity for the Victory Liberty Loan in the spring of 1919. [See also Council of Defense, Box 16, Speakers Bureau, which are D.

Correspondence of Mrs. R. H. Latham, state chairperson

General correspondence, 1918-1919

Correspondence, Third Liberty Loan, March-May 1918

Correspondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, September 1918

Correpondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, October-November 1918, n.d.

Correspondence, Victory Loan, February-June 1919, n.d.

News releases, National War Savings Committee and N.C. War Savings Committee, 1918 [softbound]

Newspaper clippings, 1917-1919

North Carolina War-Savings News, newsletter of the Publicity Department, N.C. War Savings Committee, 1918 [softbound]

War Savings Stamps Campaign

Correspondence of R. D. W. Connor with Francis H. Fries, state director, N.C. War Savings Committee, and correspondence of Kate M. Herring, director of publicity, 1917-1918, 1920

Publications: includes booklet, History of War Savings Campaign in North Carolina, 1918 (2 copies); program for North Carolina Day, December 14, 1917; pamphlet, "War Savings in Great Britain," by Basil P. Blackett, 1917; and issue of The Outlook, November 20, 1918, containing article by Kate M. Herring