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World War, 1939-1945 -- War work

 Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Bert Joseph Dorsey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2419
Scope and content Correspondence, financial reports, clippings, and other items relating to the Board of Supervisors, mostly 1939-51; the County Agricultural Society and its fairs, 1953-64; home front activities in World Wars I and II; forest conservation; the Salamanca Red Cross, the Lions Club, and the Little Valley Rod and Gun Club. There are also notes on Dorsey cheese and ice cream manufacturing interests and on Dorsey's local history publications; family records and genealogical data with related...
Dates: 1877-1964.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bert Joseph Dorsey papers

Frances Shloss scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092067820]
Identifier: 37-5-3432
Scope and content

Scrapbook including programs, photographs, and memorabilia documenting her Cornell experience. Includes documentation of World War II activities, especially War Bond drives.

Dates: 1941-1945.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frances Shloss scrapbooks

New York Farm Labor Program photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065090353]
Identifier: 4519
Scope and content

Photograph album, compiled by S.R. Shapley, State Farm Labor Superviser, with 8 x 10 photographs and captions relating to the activities of the program.

Dates: 1943-1944.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York Farm Labor Program photograph album

New York State Defense Agriculture Committee minutes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941374]
Identifier: 2823
Scope and content

Minutes, 1942-1944; "Report on New York State Defense Program," 1942 and "Manual for Local Defense Councils," 1941, produced during the World War II.

Dates: 1941-1944.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York State Defense Agriculture Committee minutes

Theresa Wolfson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5216
Abstract

This collection is a portion of Wolfson's papers contain manuscripts and research materials for a project (1947-48) interviewing labor leaders for "Philosophy and Labor." Interviewees included leaders from the following unions: San Francisco Labor Council, San Francisco Labor Research Bureau, ILGWU's San Francisco Joint Board, California State Council of Retail Clerks, and Bay District Joint Council of Building Service Employees.

Dates: 1880-1970
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / Theresa Wolfson Papers

World Wars I and II photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 3457
Scope and content World Wars I and II photographs, dated and labeled in French, document a wide range of activities—from battlefronts and war camps to diplomatic visits and civilian life in both wars. Series I. World War I (1914-1921) features images of Belgian and French soldiers and civilians, Japanese forces in Nice, several photographs of war camps and battlefronts, the German army, civilians, and Allied Forces in Germany, as well as British refugees in Russia (1918), and photographs from the US and...
Dates: [ca.1914-1945],-[ca.1914-1921] and [1939-1945] (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / World Wars I and II photographs

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