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Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of World War II papers

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Call Number:
1479
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
46.0 linear feet (97 boxes; 38 volumes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of World War II papers (Collection 1479), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1938-1948 (bulk) and 1920-1981 (inclusive)
Creator:
United States. Office of War Information.
Form:
Correspondence, Ephemera., Financial records., Minutes., Photographs., Press releases., and Speeches.
Abstract:
In late 1942, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania solicited materials to form an artificial collection to document the war effort of a number of community and social service agencies in Philadelphia. The bulk of the material donated came from the Office of War Information, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and the United Service Organization of Philadelphia. Smaller donations were made by other community organizations and volunteers such as Mrs. Weber, a member of St. Mark's church who corresponded with servicemen. The collection, which dates from 1938 to 1948, consists of press releases, administrative records, correspondence, financial records, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, posters, and ephemera.

Life in Philadelphia during World War II was about sacrifice, community service, and patriotic support of the war effort. Philadelphians began conserving household goods in response to government rationing programs; they offered entertainment and comfort to servicemen on leave through USO clubs and motherly correspondence; they engaged in political discourse, bought war bonds, and stepped up industrial production.

In order to document the war effort from the perspective of organizations on the home front in Philadelphia, the War History Committee at Historical Society of Pennsylvania began soliciting war-related materials from a number of community and social service agencies in Philadelphia in late 1942. The materials they collected were exhibited at the time, before being permanently added to Historical Society of Pennsylvania's holdings as an artificial collection. Organizations represented include: Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee; Office of War Information; and the United Service Organization of Philadelphia, including constituent agencies the Jewish Welfare Board and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

The Office of War Information (OWI) was established by an Executive Order on June 13, 1942. It coordinated the informational activities of other governmental agencies and ensured accurate and consistent flow of information from the Government to the public, both in the United States and abroad. Its creation combined the existing Office of Facts and Figures, Office of Government Reports, the Division of Information in the Office for Emergency Management, and a few other agencies. OWI carried out its information program through the press, radio, motion pictures and other media. OWI was terminated on September 15, 1945.

The Committee to Defend America (also called Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, or CDAAA) and the Fight for Freedom Committee were both anti-isolationist lobbying groups founded in 1940. The Committee to Defend America was a propaganda organization based out of New York City. Its founders hoped to use the Committee to mold public opinion in favor of American assistance to Britain. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, in January 1942, the CDAAA joined with the Council for Democracy to form Citizens for Victory: To Win the War, To Win the Peace. That group disbanded the following October. The Fight for Freedom Committee was an offshoot of the Committee to Defend America, and was a proponent of full American participation in the war. It monitored closely the activities of isolationists and isolationist groups such as the America First Committee. Fight for Freedom dispersed its message through state and local branches of the organization as well as through the news media. It was dissolved in early 1942.

The Philadelphia United Service Organization (USO) was established in 1941 through a partnership of six agencies: Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), YMCA, YWCA, Salvation Army, Travelers Aid, and the National Catholic Commission Services. Hospitality centers and entertainment clubs were founded throughout the city where servicemen and servicewomen could come to arrange for lodging and other services, or to enjoy free food and entertainment. One prominent club in Philadelphia was the Stage Door Canteen, located in the basement of the Academy of Music, which was the Hospital Entertainment Canteen after the war. Another popular club was the Labor Plaza, located near City Hall. Both were administered by the Philadelphia USO.

Although unaffiliated with the USO, Mrs. Louisa M. Weber, a member of St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia, similarly dedicated herself to providing comfort to servicemen. Over the course of World War II, she corresponded with over 76 servicemen.

Bibliography:

The preceding historical note was written using unattributed resources in the collection file at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Other sources consulted include:

"Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies records, Finding Aid." Princeton University Library, Mudd Manuscript Library (Accessed online on December 30, 2010: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?id=ark:/88435/vt150j254).

"Fight for Freedom, Inc. Records…, Finding Aid." Princeton University Library, Mudd Manuscript Library (accessed online on December 30, 2010: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?id=ark:/88435/xd07gs69m).

Weigley, Russell F., ed. Philadelphia: A 300 Year History. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982.

The World War II collection is an artificial collection of materials solicited by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania beginning in 1942. The bulk of the collection was donated by the Office of War Information (OWI), the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA), and the United Service Organization (USO) of Philadelphia. Smaller deposits were made by other community organizations and volunteers such as Mrs. Weber, a member of St. Mark's church who corresponded with servicemen. This collection, the bulk of which dates from 1938 to 1948, consists of press releases, administrative records, correspondence, financial records, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, posters, and ephemera.

The collection is organized into seven series: "Office of War Information, 1941-1943," "Committee to Defend America, 1940-1942," "United Service Organization (USO) of Philadelphia, 1940-1948," "Volunteer, government and community organizations, 1920-1947," "Photographs and newspaper clippings, 1941-1948," "Mrs. Weber's letters, 1943-1945," and "The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, War History Committee, 1942-1981."

The first series, "Office of War Information, 1941-1943," consists of two subseries: "Press releases, 1941-1943" and "Speeches, 1941-1943." The press releases subseries includes a mix of articles, reports, posters and pamphlets on numerous commodities, resources, products and industries. More specifically, the papers here are final reports that were released to the media by the OWI on everything from antifreeze to plastics, coal to clothing, as well as topics like absenteeism, sabotage and governmental departments. Rather than being a true archive of the OWI, this is a collection only of its public productions. It is organized alphabetically by subject or sponsoring agency/office/department. The speeches subseries covers similar topics, and is organized alphabetically by speaker.

The second series, "Committee to Defend America, 1940-1942," consists of correspondence, pamphlets, press releases, posters and ephemera from Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee. Much of the collection is correspondence. The series is organized alphabetically by subject.

The third series, "United Service Organization (USO) of Philadelphia, 1940-1948" consists of five subseries. The largest subseries, "General administrative records, 1941-1948," includes financial records, internal memos and reports from the constituent agencies and affiliated clubs of the Philadelphia USO. "General administrative records" comprises material from the central USO body and is further subdivided into five sub-subseries: "Council, 1941-1947," is primarily financial records, legal documents, meeting minutes and correspondence; "Committee records, 1941-1948," comprises records from committees such as the Budget Committee, Publicity Committee and Women's Committee; "Agency activity reports, 1941-1948" contains reports submitted to the central USO body from constituent agencies and affiliated clubs regarding attendance and budget requests; "Correspondence, 1941-1948" is arranged alphabetically by subject; "Subject files, 1941-1948" contains mixed materials and is arranged alphabetically by subject. The second subseries is "Publications, 1941-1948." It includes press releases, pamphlets, newsletters, and flyers such as "On Leave," published weekly by the USO of Philadelphia to advertise events and activities for servicemen in the city. The third subseries, "Labor Plaza, 1943-1948," includes administrative records, correspondence, and ephemera. The fourth subseries, "Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), 1940-1948," contains materials related to JWB administration and servicemen clubs run by the JWB. The fifth subseries, "Stage Door Canteen, 1942-1948," contains administrative materials and ephemera, including signed guest books. Photographs from the Stage Door Canteen were removed to the fifth series, "Photographs and clippings."

The fourth series, "Volunteer, government and community organizations, 1920-1947" consists of correspondence, pamphlets, press releases, and posters presented by volunteer and community organizations. Included are: America First Committee, the American Palestine Committee, Fellowship House of Philadelphia, the American Friends Service Committee, and Friends of the Spanish Republic. Government organizations include a mix of local and federal organizations: the Office of Price Administration, School District of Philadelphia, and Office of Defense Transportation.

The fifth series, "Photographs and newspaper clippings, 1941-1948," is divided into five subseries. The first subseries, "War worker rallies, 1943-1945," consists mostly of photographs with scattered newspaper clippings related to rallies held at various industrial plants in Philadelphia. The folders are arranged alphabetically by company name. The second subseries, "United Service Organization of Philadelphia/Stage Door Canteen, circa 1942-1948," consists entirely of photographs. Most are candid shots of servicemen and entertainers taken inside Stage Door Canteen, but there are also press shots from the Philadelphia USO taken at fundraisers and events. The bulk of the newspaper clippings in the third subseries, "Clippings, 1941-1945," are related to war worker rallies such as those photographed in the first subseries. The fourth subseries, "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1944-1945," contains photographs of the women who participated in that federally sponsored program at work in factories. The fifth subseries, "Scrapbooks, 1940-1947," consists of scrapbooks related to the USO of Philadelphia, the Stage Door Canteen, the Committee to Defend America, and the Service Women's Club.

The sixth series, "Mrs. Weber's letters, 1943-1945," contains letters from servicemen to Mrs. Weber. During the course of World War II, Mrs. Weber, a member of St. Mark's Church, corresponded with over 76 Philadelphia servicemen lonely for a voice from their home town. The letters are arranged alphabetically by sender.

The final series, "The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, War History Committee, 1942-1981," contains correspondence between the War History Committee and prospective donors of World War II materials. There is also a folder with letters from an individual processing the collection in 1981, and photographs of Bob Hope.

Overall, this collection is a miscellaneous and uneven group of papers. The OWI series is extensive but consists only of publicly released materials. The CDA series contains correspondence and administrative documents but is not as extensive. The USO series is uneven. The Philadelphia USO and the Stage Door Canteen it administered are well represented in internal documentation as well as published materials, but the constituent agencies and other clubs are underrepresented. Many of these materials may be replicated elsewhere or available from government archives, but this collection is uniquely Philadelphian.

Series I. Office of War Information, 1941-1943

Subseries a. Press releases Subseries b. Speeches

Series II. Committee to Defend America, 1940-1942

Series III. United Service Organization (USO) of Philadelphia, 1940-1948

Subseries a. General administrative records Subseries b. Publications Subseries c. Labor Plaza Subseries d. Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) Subseries e. Stage Door Canteen

Series IV. Volunteer, government and community organizations, 1920-1947

Series V. Photographs and newspaper clippings, 1941-1948

Subseries a. War worker rallies Subseries b. United Service Organization (USO) of Philadelphia Subseries c. Clippings Subseries d. Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) Subseries e. Scrapbooks

Series VI. Mrs. Weber’s letters, 1943-1945

Series VII. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, War History Committee, 1942-1981

The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.

This collection was minimally processed in 2009-2011, as part of an experimental project conducted under the auspices of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries to help eliminate processing backlog in Philadelphia repositories. A minimally processed collection is one processed at a less intensive rate than traditionally thought necessary to make a collection ready for use by researchers. When citing sources from this collection, researchers are advised to defer to folder titles provided in the finding aid rather than those provided on the physical folder.

Employing processing strategies outlined in Mark Greene's and Dennis Meissner's 2005 article, More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Processing Approaches to Deal With Late 20th-Century Collections, the project team tested the limits of minimal processing on collections of all types and ages, in 23 Philadelphia area repositories. A primary goal of the project, the team processed at an average rate of 2-3 hours per linear foot of records, a fraction of the time ordinarily reserved for the arrangement and description of collections. Among other time saving strategies, the project team did not extensively review the content of the collections, replace acidic folders or complete any preservation work.

Prior to 2009-2011, sections of this collection were processed to different levels. Portions of the collection were numbered 1534; the USO section, which was processed more fully around 1981, was previously numbered 1614; photographs previously in the V4 series were also added to the collection.

Princeton University: Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies records, Fight for Freedom, Inc. records.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Archives: Fight for Freedom Committee records.

Blueprints of a building for Federal Cigar Company (architects: Nimmons and Fellows, Chicago), dated 1906, have been removed from the collection. The container is labeled "Plans of building #4, 12th & Washington Ave., August 10, 1950" and had been placed in the USO/Labor Plaza section of the collection, although there is no evidence that the Labor Plaza nor any other USO club was at that location. The old finding aid (circa 1981) says of the blueprints, "relationship to the USO Collection is obscure."

Organization
Subject
Place

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
Access Restrictions

Most of this collection is open for research use. However, box 43 folder 3 and box 97 folder 1 (USO of Philadelphia, "Employee payroll records" and "South Broad Street Club. Payroll ledgers") are restricted until 2030. Please contact the Archives for additional information.

Use Restrictions

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents note

"The Home Front," "Inventory Limitation News," "Town and Farm in Wartime," "The War and Business," and "A Week of the War" were weekly digests of news on particular subjects, sent to newspapers by the Office of War Information.

Absenteeism, 1943.
Box 1 Folder 1
Advisory committees, 1941-1943.
Box 1 Folder 2-5
Air transport, 1943.
Box 1 Folder 6
Aircraft, 1941-1943.
Box 1 Folder 7-8
Alcohol, 1942-1943.
Box 1 Folder 9
Aluminum, 1941-1943.
Box 1 Folder 10-11
Antifreeze and asbestos, 1942-1943.
Box 1 Folder 12
Appointments (Office of Defense Transportation), 1941-1942.
Box 1 Folder 13-14
Appointments (Office of Price Administration), 1941-1943.
Box 1 Folder 15
Appointments (Office of Price Administration), 1941-1943.
Box 2 Folder 1
Appointments (War Production Board), 1941-1943.
Box 2 Folder 2-6
Army equipment, 1943.
Box 2 Folder 7
Asphalt, 1943.
Box 2 Folder 8
Automotive, 1941-1943.
Box 3 Folder 1 Box 2 Folder 9-11
Banking with ration cards, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 2
Batteries, 1942-1943.
Box 3 Folder 3
Bedding, 1941-1943.
Box 3 Folder 4
Beverages, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 5
Bicycles, 1942-1943.
Box 3 Folder 6
Bituminous Coal Division, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 7
Blimps and helium, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 8
Board of Economic Warfare, 1942-1943.
Box 3 Folder 9
Board of War Communications, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 10
Book binding, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 11
Brushes, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 12
Building materials, 1941-1943.
Box 3 Folder 13-14
Bureau of the Budget, 1942-1943.
Box 3 Folder 15
Bureau of Mines, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 16
Bureau of Public Inquiries, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 17
Bureau of Reclamation, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 18
Cafeterias, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 19
Camping, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 20
Canned foods, 1942-1943.
Box 3 Folder 21
Canning, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 22
Chemicals, 1941-1943.
Box 3 Folder 23-25 Box 4 Folder 1-6
Civil Service Commission, 1943.
Box 4 Folder 7
Class B product symbols, 1943.
Box 4 Folder 8
Clothing (general), 1942-1943.
Box 4 Folder 9-10
Clothing (men's), 1942-1943.
Box 4 Folder 11-12
Clothing (officer's uniforms), 1943.
Box 4 Folder 13
Clothing (women's), 1942-1943.
Box 4 Folder 14-15
Closures and fasteners, 1942-1943.
Box 4 Folder 16
Coal, 1941-1943.
Box 4 Folder 17-18
Coal, 1941-1943.
Box 5 Folder 1-6
Coal, "Maximum Price Regulation #120", 1942.
Box 5 Folder 7
Coal strike, 1943.
Box 5 Folder 8
Colloidal fuel, 1943.
Box 5 Folder 9
Combat journalists, 1943.
Box 5 Folder 10
Combined Food Board, 1942-1943.
Box 5 Folder 11
Combined Production and Resources Board, 1942-1943.
Box 5 Folder 12
Combined Raw Materials Board, 1942.
Box 5 Folder 13
Construction, 1941-1943.
Box 5 Folder 14-15
Consumer goods, 1943.
Box 5 Folder 16
Consumer goods and fuel conservation, 1942-1943.
Box 6 Folder 1
Containers, 1941-1943.
Box 6 Folder 2-5
Controlled materials plan, 1943.
Box 6 Folder 6-7
Controlled shipment, 1943.
Box 6 Folder 8
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1942.
Box 6 Folder 9
Copper, 1941-1943.
Box 6 Folder 10-12
Copper, 1941-1943.
Box 7 Folder 1-2
Cordage (rope), 1943.
Box 7 Folder 3
Cosmetics, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 4
Cost of living, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 5
Cotton, 1941-1943.
Box 7 Folder 6
Crop Corps, 1943.
Box 7 Folder 7
Dairy production, 1943.
Box 7 Folder 8
Dental, 1943.
Box 7 Folder 9
Department of Agriculture, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 10-11
Department of Commerce, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 12
Department of the Interior, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 13-14
Department of Justice, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 15-16
Department of Labor, 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 17-18
Department of State, 1942.
Box 7 Folder 19
Dies (manufacturing), 1943.
Box 7 Folder 20
Scope and Contents note

This folder is about manufacturing dies used to cut or shape material using a press.

Domestic affairs (general), 1942-1943.
Box 7 Folder 21-22
Domestic affairs (general), 1942-1943.
Box 8 Folder 1-3
Driving, nonessential, 1942-1943.
Box 8 Folder 4
Dyes and dye-stuffs, 1942-1943.
Box 8 Folder 5
Electrical equipment, 1942-1943.
Box 8 Folder 6
Elevators, escalators, and dumbwaiters, 1941-1943.
Box 8 Folder 7
Employment, alien, 1943.
Box 8 Folder 8
Employment stabilization, 1943.
Box 8 Folder 9
Entertainers, 1943.
Box 8 Folder 10
Equipment conversion, 1942-1943.
Box 8 Folder 11
Explosives, 1941-1942.
Box 8 Folder 12
Exports, 1943.
Box 8 Folder 13
Eyeglasses and sunglasses, 1943.
Box 8 Folder 14
Fair employment practices, 1942.
Box 9 Folder 1
Farm labor, 1943.
Box 9 Folder 2
Farm machines and equipment, 1941-1943.
Box 9 Folder 3-4
Fats and oils, 1941-1943.
Box 9 Folder 5
Federal Security Agency, 1942-1943.
Box 9 Folder 6
Federal Works Agency, 1942-1943.
Box 9 Folder 7
Fertilizer, 1942-1943.
Box 9 Folder 8
Floor coverings, 1941-1942.
Box 9 Folder 9
Food processors and food dehydrators, 1943.
Box 9 Folder 10
Foreign affairs (general), 1942-1943.
Box 9 Folder 11-13
Forty-eight hour work week, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 1
Foundry equipment, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 2
Fuel oil, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 3-5
Fuel oil and gasoline, 1942-1943.
Box 10 Folder 6
Fuel oil and natural gas, 1942.
Box 10 Folder 7
Furs, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 8
Gasoline, black market, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 9
Gasoline shortage, 1943.
Box 10 Folder 10
General, 1943 and undated.
Box 10 Folder 11-12
General Maximum Price Regulation, commodities and services, 1942-1943.
Box 10 Folder 13-15
General Maximum Price Regulation, commodities and services, 1942-1943.
Box 11 Folder 1-3
Geological Survey, 1942.
Box 11 Folder 4
Golf clubs, 1942.
Box 11 Folder 5
Health and welfare services, 1942-1943.
Box 11 Folder 6
Hide glue, 1942-1943.
Box 11 Folder 7
"The Home Front", 1942-1943.
Box 11 Folder 8
"The Home Front" and "Your War," reviews, 1942.
Box 11 Folder 9
Hosiery, 1941-1943.
Box 11 Folder 10-11
Household equipment, 1942-1943.
Box 11 Folder 12
Housing, 1941-1943.
Box 11 Folder 13-19
Inflation, 1941-1943.
Box 12 Folder 1
Insecticides, 1943.
Box 12 Folder 2
Inter-American Defense Board, 1942.
Box 12 Folder 3
Interdepartmental Committee on Employee Investigations, 1943.
Box 12 Folder 4
"Inventory Limitation News", 1943.
Box 12 Folder 5
Imports, 1943.
Box 12 Folder 6
Iron and steel, 1941-1943.
Box 12 Folder 7-15
Iron and steel, 1941-1943.
Box 13 Folder 1-4
Jewelry and precious stones, 1942-1943.
Box 13 Folder 5
Labor shortage, 1943.
Box 13 Folder 6
Lead, 1941-1943.
Box 13 Folder 7-8
Leather and leather products, 1941-1943.
Box 13 Folder 9
Laundries, 1943.
Box 13 Folder 10
Looting of Holland and Belgium, 1943.
Box 13 Folder 11
Luggage, 1943.
Box 13 Folder 12
Lumber (firewood), 1943.
Box 13 Folder 13
Lumber (plywood and dogwood), 1943.
Box 13 Folder 14
Lumber and lumber products, 1941-1943.
Box 13 Folder 15-19
Lumber and lumber products, 1941-1943.
Box 14 Folder 1-5
Machine parts, 1942-1943.
Box 14 Folder 6
Machine tools, 1941-1943.
Box 14 Folder 7
Machines (general), 1941-1943.
Box 14 Folder 8-11
Manpower Commission, 1943.
Box 14 Folder 12
Maritime Commission, 1942-1943.
Box 14 Folder 13
Matches, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 1
Meat, 1942-1943.
Box 15 Folder 2-3
Medical care, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 4
Metals (general), 1941-1943.
Box 15 Folder 5-8
Middle East Supply Center, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 9
Mining equipment, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 10
Munitions Production Report, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 11
National Housing Agency, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 12
National Park Service, 1942.
Box 15 Folder 13
National War Fund, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 14
Naval Department, 1942-1943.
Box 15 Folder 15
Nazis, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 16
Negroes, 1943 and undated.
Box 15 Folder 17
Newspaper lists, 1942-1943 and undated.
Box 15 Folder 18
Norwegians, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 19
Nutrition, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 20
Office of Alien Property Custodian, 1942-1943.
Box 15 Folder 21
Office of Censorship, 1942-1943.
Box 15 Folder 22
Office of Civilian Defense, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 23-24
Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries, 1942-1943.
Box 15 Folder 25
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1942.
Box 15 Folder 26
Office of Defense Health and Welfare, 1943.
Box 15 Folder 27
Office of Defense Transportation, 1941-1943.
Box 15 Folder 28-29
Office of Defense Transportation, 1941-1943.
Box 16 Folder 1-5
Office of Education, 1942-1943.
Box 16 Folder 6
Office for Emergency Management, 1942.
Box 16 Folder 7
Office furniture and equipment, 1943.
Box 16 Folder 8
Office of Indian Affairs, 1942.
Box 16 Folder 9
Office of Lend-Lease Administration, 1943.
Box 16 Folder 10
Office machinery, 1942-1943.
Box 16 Folder 11-12
Office of Price Administration, 1942-1943.
Box 16 Folder 13-16
Office of Price Administration, 1942-1943.
Box 17 Folder 1-6
Office of Price Administration in Harrisburg (Pa.), 1943.
Box 17 Folder 7
"Office of Price Administration News of the Week", 1943.
Box 17 Folder 8
Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, 1943.
Box 17 Folder 9
Paints and varnishes, 1941-1943.
Box 17 Folder 10
Paper, newsprint, 1942-1943.
Box 18 Folder 1
Paper and paper products, 1941-1943.
Box 18 Folder 2-6
Paper, wallpaper, 1943.
Box 18 Folder 7
Paper, waste, 1941-1943.
Box 18 Folder 8
Paper, wood pulp, 1942-1943.
Box 18 Folder 9
Pencils, 1942.
Box 18 Folder 10
Persecution of German Catholics, 1943.
Box 18 Folder 11
Petroleum Administration for War, 1942-1943.
Box 18 Folder 12
Petroleum and petroleum products, 1942-1943.
Box 18 Folder 13-15
Petroleum and petroleum products, 1942-1943.
Box 19 Folder 1-11
Plastics, 1943.
Box 19 Folder 12
Plumbing and heating equipment, 1942-1943.
Box 19 Folder 13
Point rationing, 1942-1943.
Box 19 Folder 14-16
Point rationing, 1942-1943.
Box 20 Folder 1-5
Pottery, 1942.
Box 20 Folder 6
Pressure cookers, 1942.
Box 20 Folder 7
Price Posting Educational Campaign, 1942.
Box 20 Folder 8
Pricing, mining communities, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 9
Priorities system, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 10
Prison industries, 1942.
Box 20 Folder 11
Prisoners of war, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 12
Public health, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 13
Public health service, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 14
Public Roads Administration, 1942.
Box 20 Folder 15
Questions and Answers, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 16-17
Rayon and silk, 1941-1942.
Box 20 Folder 18-19
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1943.
Box 20 Folder 20
Refrigerators, 1942-1943.
Box 20 Folder 21
Rent control, 1942-1943.
Box 20 Folder 22
Rent control, 1942-1943.
Box 21 Folder 1-5
Rubber, 1942-1943.
Box 21 Folder 6-13
Rubber, 1942-1943.
Box 22 Folder 1-7
Sabotage, 1943.
Box 22 Folder 8
Salvage, 1941-1943.
Box 22 Folder 9-14
Salvage, automobile parts, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 1
Salvage, farm materials, National Scrap Harvest, 1942.
Box 23 Folder 2
Salvage, fat, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 3
Salvage, Pennsylvania Salvage Bulletin, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 4
Second War Bond, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 5
Selective Services, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 6
Selective Service System, 1942.
Box 23 Folder 7
Servicemen, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 8
Shoes, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 9-10
Silverware, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 11
Soap, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 12
Smaller War Plants Corporation, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 13
State Council of Defense, 1943.
Box 23 Folder 14
Statistics, Office of Facts and Figures, 1941-1942.
Box 23 Folder 15
Sugar, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 16
Telegraph and telephone, 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 17
Textiles (general), 1942-1943.
Box 23 Folder 18
Textiles (general), 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 1-2
Tin, 1941-1943.
Box 24 Folder 3-5
Tires, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 6
Tobacco, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 7
"Town and Farm in Wartime", 1943.
Box 24 Folder 8
Toys and games, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 9
Transportation, 1943.
Box 24 Folder 10-11
Treasury Department, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 12
Utilities, 1941-1943.
Box 24 Folder 13-14
United Nations News Division and Information Board, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 15
Vocational Training, 1943.
Box 24 Folder 16
"The War and Business", 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 17
War costs, 1943.
Box 24 Folder 18
War Department, 1942-1943.
Box 24 Folder 19
War expenditures, 1942-1943.
Box 25 Folder 1
War Manpower Commission, 1942-1943.
Box 25 Folder 2-9
War Production Board, 1942-1943.
Box 25 Folder 10-11
War Production Board, 1942-1943.
Box 26 Folder 1-7
War Production Board, 1942-1943.
Box 27 Folder 1-2
War Production Drive, 1942-1943.
Box 27 Folder 3
War Relocation Authority, 1943.
Box 27 Folder 4
War Shipping Administration, 1942-1943.
Box 27 Folder 5-6
Wartime Food Bulletin, 1942-1943.
Box 27 Folder 7
Wartime Food Situation Report, 1943.
Box 27 Folder 8
"A Week of the War", 1943.
Box 27 Folder 9
Women in war, 1943.
Box 27 Folder 10
Women's page editor, 1943.
Box 28 Folder 1
Wool, 1941-1943.
Box 28 Folder 2-4
Zinc, 1941-1943.
Box 28 Folder 5
Bane-Budd, 1941-1943.
Box 28 Folder 6
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Frank Bane (National Defense Advisory Commission), John Baxter (Office of Production Management), Ralph Budd (Transportation Commission), George S. Brady (Office of Price Administration), William L. Batt (War Production Board), Otto S. Beyer (Office of Defense Transportation), John D. Biggers (Office of Production Management), W. H. P. Blandy (Bureau of Ordnance), A. E. Bowman (War Production Board), Robert R. R. Brooks (Office of Production Management), A. J. Browning (Office of Production Management), James F. Bogardus (Office of Price Administration).

Cooke-Colton, 1941.
Box 28 Folder 7
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Office of Production Management), Bruce Catton (Office of Production Management), Herbert S. Colton (Division of Defense Housing Coordination).

Davis-Dean, 1941-1943.
Box 28 Folder 8
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Elmer Davis (Office of War Information), Chester C. Davis (National Defense Advisory Commission), William H. Davis (National Defense Mediation Board), Joel Dean (Office of Price Administration).

Eastman, Joseph B. (Office of Defense Transportation), 1942.
Box 28 Folder 9
Eliot, Martha M. (Department of Labor), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 1
Elliott, Harriet (National Defense Advisory Commission), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 2
Galbraith, J. K. (National Defense Advisory Commission), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 3
Gasser, L. D. (Office of Civilian Defense), 1942.
Box 29 Folder 4
Glancy, A. R. (Office of Production Management), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 5
Ginsburg, David (Office of Price Administration), 1942.
Box 29 Folder 6
Guthrie, R. R. (Office of Production Management), 1942.
Box 29 Folder 7
Hamm, John E. (Office of Price Administration), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 8
Harrison, W. H. (Office of Production Management), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 9
Henderson, Charles B. (Reconstruction Finance Corporation), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 10
Henderson, Leon (Office of Price Administration), 1941-1942.
Box 29 Folder 11
Hillman, Sidney (Office of Production Management), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 12
Hoffman, A. C. (Office of Price Administration), 1942.
Box 29 Folder 13
Horton, Robert W. (Office for Emergency Management), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 14
Hutson, J. B. (National Defense Advisory Commission), 1941.
Box 29 Folder 15
Jones-Knowlson, 1942.
Box 29 Folder 16
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Jesse Jones (Secretary of Commerce), Ernest Kanzler (War Production Board), Donald D. Kennedy (Office of Price Administration), J. S. Knowlson (Director of Industry Operations).

Knox-Knudson, 1941.
Box 29 Folder 17
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Frank Knox (Secretary of the Navy), William S. Knudson (Office of Production Management).

LaGuardia-Lubin, 1941-1942.
Box 29 Folder 18
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Fiorello LaGuardia (Mayor of New York), James M. Landis (Office of Civilian Defense), M. Hugues Le Gallais (Minister from Luxembourg), E. A. Locke Jr. (War Production Board), Joseph A. Lubin (Chairman of Committee for the Review of Data Requests from Industry).

Lund-Lynch, 1941-1942.
Box 29 Folder 19
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Wendell Lund (War Production Board), George Q. Lynch (President of the Patternmakers League of North America).

MacKeachie-Maxwell, 1941-1942.
Box 30 Folder 1
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Douglas MacKeachie (Office of Production Management), John A. Martin (Office of Production Management), Maury Maverick (Division of Civilian Supply), Stacy May (Office of Production Management), Russell L. Maxwell (Administration of Export Control).

McNutt, Paul V. (Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services), 1941-1943.
Box 30 Folder 2
Mehornay-Morgenthau, 1941-1942.
Box 30 Folder 3
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Robert L. Mehornay (Office of Production Management), John J. McCloy (Assistant Secretary of War), Cyrus McCormick (Office of Price Administration), Thelma McKelvey (Office of Production Management), Frank J. McSherry (War Manpower Commission), Carl Henry Monsees (Division of Defense Housing Coordination), Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.

Nathan-Nicol, 1941-1942.
Box 30 Folder 4
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Robert R. Nathan (Office of War Information), Samuel E. Neel (Office of Production Management), Peter R. Nehemkis Jr. (Office of Production Management), Eric Nicol (Office of Production Management).

Nelson, Donald (War Production Board), 1941-1943.
Box 30 Folder 5
Odlum-OLeary, 1941-1942.
Box 30 Folder 6
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Floyd B. Odlum (Office of Production Management), Paul M. O’Leary (Office of Price Administration).

Palmer-Price, 1941-1943.
Box 30 Folder 7
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Charles F. Palmer (Defense Housing Coordinator), Robert Patterson (Undersecretary of War), Warren Lee Pierson (President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington), Paul R. Porter (War Production Board), H. W. Prentis Jr. (War Production Board), Byron Price (Office of War Information).

Reed-Sterling, 1941-1943.
Box 30 Folder 8
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Philip D. Reed (Office of Production Management), Harold B. Rowe (Office of Price Administration), Samuel H. Sabin (National Defense Advisory Commission), Emil Schran (Reconstruction Finance Corporation), Jack Garrett Scott (Office of Defense Transportation), L. Edward Scriven (Reconstruction Finance Corporation), Henry C. Sherman (Office of the Coordinator of Health), Blackwell Smith (Office of Production Management), Donald J. Sterling (War Production Board).

Stimson-Tuft, 1941.
Box 30 Folder 9
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Henry L. Stimson (War Department), Peter A. Stone (Office of Price Administration), Charles P. Taft (Office of the Coordinator of Health), W. Clifford Townsend (Office of Production Management), Joseph P. Tuft (Office of Price Administration).

Wallace-Wilson, 1941-1943.
Box 30 Folder 10
Scope and Contents note

Folder includes speeches by: Henry A. Wallace (Vice President of the U.S.A.), T. Semmes Walmsley (Office of Civilian Defense), T. Johnson Ward (War Production Board), Sidney J. Weinberg (Office of Production Management), Dan A. West (Office of Price Administration), Claude R. Wickard (Secretary of Agriculture), Russell M. Wilder (Office of the Coordinator of Health), G. Lloyd Wilson (Director of Transportation), M. L. Wilson (Director of Nutrition), Robert E. Wilson (Office of Production Management).

African-American concerns, newspaper clippings, correspondence and pamphlets, 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 1
America First Committee, 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 2-3
Anti-Defamation Council, 1941.
Box 31 Folder 4
Audit books, 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 7
Branch offices, correspondence, clippings, ephemera and reports, 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 8
Branch offices, printed material, undated.
Box 31 Folder 9
Branch offices, Baltimore (Md.), circa 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 10
Branch offices, Lancaster (Pa.), correspondence regarding publicity, 1940-1941.
Box 31 Folder 11
Branch offices, Philadelphia (Pa.), 1940.
Box 31 Folder 12
Branch offices, Pennsylvania, correspondence, 1940-1941.
Box 32 Folder 1
Cancelled checks, 1940-1941.
Box 32 Folder 2-3
Chapter correspondence, addresses and pamphlets, 1940-1941.
Box 32 Folder 4
College and youth groups, 1940-1941.
Box 32 Folder 5
Committee for the Care of Young Children in Wartime, circa 1943.
Box 32 Folder 6
Correspondence, A-C, 1940-1941.
Box 32 Folder 7-11
Correspondence, D-G, 1938-1941.
Box 33 Folder 1-3
Correspondence, H-M, 1940-1941.
Box 33 Folder 4-6
Correspondence, N-R, 1940-1941.
Box 33 Folder 7
Correspondence, S-Z, 1940-1941.
Box 33 Folder 8-9
Correspondence, 1940-1941.
Box 33 Folder 10
Correspondence, 1940-1941.
Box 34 Folder 1-2
Correspondence regarding contributions and fundraising, 1940-1942.
Box 34 Folder 3-5
Correspondence to special groups, 1940-1941.
Box 34 Folder 6
Correspondence with US officials, 1940-1941.
Box 34 Folder 7
Council of Defense, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 8
Executive Committee address lists, undated.
Box 34 Folder 9
Executive Committee correspondence, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 10
Factories, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 11
Fight for Freedom, correspondence between New York and Philadelphia offices, 1940-1941.
Box 34 Folder 12-13
Fight for Freedom, correspondence regarding founding local chapters, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 14
Fight for Freedom, ephemera, 1940-1941.
Box 34 Folder 15
Fight for Freedom, National Headquarters printed material, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 16
Fight for Freedom, Philadelphia office press releases, 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 1
Fight for Freedom, print materials, undated.
Box 35 Folder 2
Fight for Freedom and Committee to Defend America, petitions and letters, 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 3
Fight for Freedom and Committee to Defend America, printed materials and pamphlets, circa 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 4
Financial documents, circa 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 5
Financial ledger, 1940-1941.
Volume 1
Financial statements, 1940-1942.
Box 35 Folder 6
German-American organizations, circa 1941.
Box 35 Folder 7
Italian-American organizations, 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 8
Labor groups and unions, 1940-1941.
Box 35 Folder 9-10
Mailing list, undated.
Box 37
Mailing list, undated.
Box 38
Minute book, 1940-1941.
Volume 2
Newspaper letter-writing campaign, 1941.
Box 35 Folder 11
Philadelphia headquarters, circa 1940.
Box 35 Folder 12
Poster contest, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 1
Printed materials, 1940-1944.
Box 36 Folder 2
Publicity, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 3
Publicity and policy statements, 1941.
Box 36 Folder 4
Publicity and printed materials, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 5-6
Save Freedom Citizen's Committee, Save Freedom Rally, 1941.
Box 36 Folder 7
Sending food to German occupied areas, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 8
Speaker's Bureau A-M, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 9
Speaker's Bureau N-Z, 1940-1941.
Box 36 Folder 10
Stop Hitler, receipt stub books, 1940-1941.
Box 38

Annual report, 1943.
Box 39 Folder 1
Board of Directors, 1945.
Box 39 Folder 2-3
Budget reports, 1945-1946.
Box 39 Folder 4-6
Budget requests, 1946.
Box 40 Folder 1-2
Budgets (annual), 1944-1945.
Box 40 Folder 3-5
Budgets, completed sets, USO agencies, 1944.
Box 41 Folder 1
Budgets, cost per attendant in clubs, 1944.
Box 41 Folder 2
Budget disbursements, 1944.
Box 41 Folder 3
Budgets, surplus copies, 1944.
Box 41 Folder 4
Bylaws, 1944.
Box 41 Folder 5
Campaign bills, 1941.
Box 41 Folder 6-7
Campaign bills, 1941.
Box 42 Folder 1-2
Cash disbursements, 1942.
Volume 3
Cash receipts, 1942.
Volume 4
Confirmed speaking engagements, 1941.
Box 42 Folder 3
Consolidated financial statements, general office, 1944.
Box 42 Folder 4
Contact activity reports, 1946.
Box 42 Folder 5
Contributors, summaries, 1941.
Box 42 Folder 6
Daily cash receipt record, 1941.
Volume 5
Director daily reports, 1941.
Box 42 Folder 7
Directory of USO operations, 1942.
Box 42 Folder 8
Directory of USO operations, 1943.
Box 42 Folder 9
Disbursements, 1945.
Box 43 Folder 1
Dormitory records, 1944.
Box 43 Folder 2
Employee payroll records [Restricted], 1943-1944.
Box 43 Folder 3
Evaluation committee, 1944-1946.
Box 43 Folder 4
Field service bulletins, 1942-1944.
Box 43 Folder 5
Incorporation of council, legal records and correspondence, 1944.
Box 43 Folder 6
Insurance, blanket liability, 1944-1946.
Box 43 Folder 7-8
Insurance, fire, 1943-1946.
Box 43 Folder 9
Insurance, various, 1943-1944.
Box 43 Folder 10
Insurance, workman's compensation, 1943-1947.
Box 43 Folder 11
Leases and contracts, 1942-1947.
Box 44 Folder 1
Minutes, 1941-1947.
Box 44-46
National operating bulletins, 1941-1947.
Box 46 Folder 5-6
National operating bulletins, 1941-1947.
Box 47 Folder 1-4
Publicity kit, 1943-1946.
Box 47 Folder 5
Publicity kit, 1943-1946.
Box 48 Folder 1
Purchase of furniture from National USO, 1945.
Box 48 Folder 2
Records borrowed from Salvation Army, 1941-1946.
Box 48 Folder 3
South Broad Street Club, financial records, 1943-1945.
Box 48 Folder 4
South Broad Street Club, insurance records, 1945.
Box 48 Folder 5
South Broad Street Club, payroll ledgers [Restricted], 1943-1946.
Box 97 Folder 1
South Broad Street Club, social security tax abatement, 1944.
Box 48 Folder 6
South Broad Street Club USO minutes, 1942-1946.
Box 48 Folder 7
Speaker's bureau applications, 1941.
Box 48 Folder 8
Staff meeting minutes, 1942-1946.
Box 48 Folder 9
Staff meeting minutes, 1942-1946.
Box 49 Folder 1-3
Treasurer's report, 1941.
Box 49 Folder 4-7
War Chest budget committee, budgets and correspondence, 1944-1945.
Box 49 Folder 8
Budget Committee, 1942-1946.
Box 50 Folder 1-5
Budget Committee, summary of tax withholdings, 1941.
Box 51 Folder 1
Community Service Committee minutes, 1943.
Box 51 Folder 2
Dayroom Committee minutes, 1943.
Box 51 Folder 3
Hospitality Committee minutes, 1944.
Box 51 Folder 4
Induction Center, 1944-1945.
Box 51 Folder 5
Publicity Committee, 1942-1948.
Box 51 Folder 6
Reading Lounge, 1943-1945.
Box 51 Folder 7
Recreational Committee minutes, 1942.
Box 51 Folder 8
Survey Committee, administrative records, 1945.
Box 51 Folder 9
Survey Committee, data, 1945.
Box 51 Folder 10
Women's Committee, Date Club, and Soldiers' Need Committee financial records, 1942-1945.
Volume 6
Women's Committee ledger, 1943-1944.
Box 51 Folder 11
Women's Committee minutes, 1942-1945.
Box 52 Folder 1
Women's Committee minutes and correspondence, 1942-1946.
Box 52 Folder 2
Women's Committee treasurer's report, 1943-1945.
Box 52 Folder 3
1942-1947.
Box 52 Folder 4-17
1943-1944.
Box 53 Folder 1-10
1944-1945.
Box 54 Folder 1-12
1945.
Box 55 Folder 1-9
1945-1946.
Box 56 Folder 1-12
1946-1948.
Box 57 Folder 1-3
Activities only, 1945-1946.
Box 57 Folder 4-5
Actual and consolidated reports, 1944.
Box 57 Folder 6-13
Attendance records, estimated, 1947.
Box 57 Folder 14
Attendance records, in camp and in hospital, 1947.
Box 57 Folder 15
Attendance, yearly, 1941-1946.
Box 57 Folder 16
General Office, requisitions, 1943.
Box 57 Folder 17
Monthly statistical reports, 1947.
Box 57 Folder 18
Monthly statistical reports, 1947.
Box 58 Folder 1
Navy Yard liaison, 1944.
Box 58 Folder 2
Philadelphia USO attendance charts, 1941-1947.
Box 97 Folder 13
Service clubs, financial statements, 1943-1946.
Box 58 Folder 3-6
Service clubs, requisitions, 1945-1946.
Box 59 Folder 1-5
Service clubs, requisitions, 1945-1946.
Box 60 Folder 1-5
Service Women's Club, requisitions, 1943.
Box 60 Folder 6
Service Women's Club, requisitions, 1943.
Box 61 Folder 1
South Broad Street Club, statistical reports, 1943-1946.
Box 61 Folder 2
USO Date Club, requisitions, 1943.
Box 61 Folder 3
USO Labor Plaza, requisitions, 1943.
Box 61 Folder 4
USO Women's Committee, requisitions, 1943.
Box 61 Folder 5
Advertising, 1941.
Box 61 Folder 6
Agency activity reports, 1946-1947.
Box 61 Folder 7
Beginnings of Philadelphia USO, 1942.
Box 61 Folder 8
Budget Committee, 1942-1943.
Box 61 Folder 9
Budget matters, 1944-1947.
Box 61 Folder 10-11
Collection of bottles, 1941.
Box 61 Folder 12
Collection of cans, 1941.
Box 62 Folder 1
Community Chest, 1944-1946.
Box 62 Folder 2
Contributions, 1942-1947.
Box 62 Folder 3-4
House organs, 1941.
Box 62 Folder 5
Insurance, 1941-1946.
Box 62 Folder 6-7
Leases and contracts, 1943-1948.
Box 62 Folder 8
National Urban League survey, 1946.
Box 62 Folder 9
Printing, 1941.
Box 62 Folder 10
Publicity, 1941.
Box 62 Folder 11
Publishing, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 1
Radio addresses, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 2
Safeguarding military information, 1944.
Box 63 Folder 3
Segregation and South Broad Street building, 1942-1943.
Box 63 Folder 4
Speakers, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 5
United War Chest, 1942-1943.
Box 63 Folder 6
USO Council, 1943.
Box 63 Folder 7
USO donations, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 8
USO Sabbath, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 9
Veterans Administration, 1946.
Box 63 Folder 10
War Production Board, 1942-1943.
Box 63 Folder 11
Window displays, 1941.
Box 63 Folder 12
Beginnings of USO, circa 1942.
Box 63 Folder 13
Benedict Club, ephemera, 1945, undated.
Box 63 Folder 14
Block-to-Block campaign ephemera, undated.
Box 63 Folder 15
Date Club correspondence, 1942-1945.
Box 64 Folder 1
Date Club financial records, 1944-1945.
Box 64 Folder 2
Date Club minutes, 1943.
Box 64 Folder 3
Dramatics, 1943-1944.
Box 64 Folder 4
Dramatics, list of theaters, USO Bremerton Theater Project and scripts, undated.
Box 64 Folder 5
Fundraising, circa 1941.
Box 64 Folder 6
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, 1946-1947.
Box 64 Folder 7
Income tax instructions, 1944-1945.
Box 64 Folder 8
Publicity, planning, 1945.
Box 64 Folder 9
Publicity, printing cuts.
Box 64 Folder 10
Scope and Contents note

These cuts (or plates) were used in the print-making process for newspapers. The Office of War Information sometimes sent newspaper companies articles in this form, complete with text and images and ready to be inserted directly into newspaper layouts.

Publicity, restaurant menus, circa 1941.
Box 64 Folder 11
Publicity, suggestions, 1941-1943.
Box 65 Folder 1-4
Related agencies, ephemera and correspondence, circa 1943-1945.
Box 65 Folder 5-7
Scrap Book Service, 1942-1945.
Box 66 Folder 1
Service Women's Club, cash receipts and disbursements, 1944-1946.
Volume 7
Service Women's Club, Executive Committee minutes, 1943-1945.
Box 66 Folder 2
Service Women's Club, financial ledger, 1944-1945.
Volume 8
South Broad Street Club, ephemera, circa 1944.
Box 66 Folder 3
South Broad Street Club, income tax withholdings, 1943-1946.
Box 66 Folder 4
South Broad Street Club, income tax receipts, 1943-1946.
Box 66 Folder 5
Speeches, 1941.
Box 66 Folder 6
United Service Club, 17th and Locust Streets, undated.
Box 66 Folder 7
United War Chest campaign ephemera, circa 1944-1946.
Box 66 Folder 8
War Fund campaign, 1942.
Box 66 Folder 9
YMCA/YWCA, circa 1943.
Box 66 Folder 10
YMCA, 1945-1948.
Box 66 Folder 11
Blank USO scrap book, undated.
Box 66 Folder 12
Commendation certificates, 1945.
Box 97 Folder 2
"Information Sheet", 1941-1945.
Box 66 Folder 13
"Information Sheet", 1941-1945.
Box 67 Folder 1-3
Musical scores, 1941.
Box 67 Folder 4
Non-USO pamphlets on film and art, undated.
Box 67 Folder 5
"On Leave", 1942-1947.
Box 67 Folder 6-11
Scope and Contents note

"On Leave" (renamed "Time Off" in 1948) was a broadside published weekly by the USO of Philadelphia. It advertised events and activities for servicemen in the city. See also box 69, folder 12.

"On Leave", 1942-1947.
Box 68 Folder 1-6
Posters, undated.
Box 68 Folder 7-8
Posters, undated.
Box 97 Folder 3
Press releases, New York office, 1941, undated.
Box 68 Folder 9-10
Press releases, New York office, 1941, undated.
Box 69 Folder 1
Press releases, Philadelphia office, 1941-1944.
Box 69 Folder 2-5
Printed USO ephemera, undated.
Box 69 Folder 6
"Prisoners of War Bulletin," Red Cross, 1944-1945.
Box 69 Folder 7
"The Red Shield," Red Cross, 1942-1945.
Box 69 Folder 8
Saint Stephen's Service Club ephemera, undated.
Box 69 Folder 9
"Shifting Scenes," Traveler's Aid Association, 1942-1944.
Box 69 Folder 10
Statement by Morris Wolf and letters to Philadelphia newspapers, 1941.
Box 69 Folder 11
"Time Off", 1948.
Box 69 Folder 12
Scope and Contents note

"On Leave" (renamed "Time Off" in 1948) was a broadside published weekly by the USO of Philadelphia. It advertised events and activities for servicemen in the city. See also box 67, folders 6-11 and box 68, folders 1-6.

"The USO Bulletin", 1941-1944.
Box 70 Folder 1-3
"USO Reporter", 1943-1945.
Box 70 Folder 4
Attendance records, circa 1943.
Box 70 Folder 5
Blueprint, 1943.
Box 70 Folder 6
Budget (tentative), 1947.
Box 70 Folder 7
Cash disbursements, 1944-1946.
Volume 9
Cash receipts, 1944-1946.
Volume 10
Contacts, 1943-1946.
Box 70 Folder 8
Correspondence, 1947-1948.
Box 70 Folder 9-10
Correspondence, 1947.
Box 71 Folder 1-2
Correspondence, Canteen Committee, 1943-1945.
Box 71 Folder 3
Correspondence, financial and legal, 1943.
Box 71 Folder 4
Correspondence regarding closing utilities accounts, 1947.
Box 71 Folder 5
Correspondence regarding Fred J. Scholer, 1943-1944.
Box 71 Folder 6
Correspondence regarding removal contract, 1947.
Box 71 Folder 7
Ephemera, undated.
Box 71 Folder 8
Equipment and supplies, correspondence and financial reports, 1943-1945.
Box 71 Folder 9
Executive Committee Minutes, 1943-1946.
Box 71 Folder 10-13
Expenditure reports, 1943.
Box 72 Folder 1
Expenses, 1943-1944.
Box 72 Folder 2
Financial reports, 1947.
Box 72 Folder 3
Food rationing, circa 1944.
Box 72 Folder 4
Hostess Committee minutes, 1943-1945.
Box 72 Folder 5-6
Indoor activities, 1943-1946.
Box 72 Folder 7
Inventory closing out, 1946.
Box 72 Folder 8
Junior Volunteer Council minutes, 1945.
Box 72 Folder 9
Kurtz, William Fulton (Chairman) correspondence, 1943-1946.
Box 72 Folder 10
Labor Plaza Committee minutes, 1947-1948.
Box 72 Folder 11-16
Legal documents and meeting minutes regarding founding, 1943.
Box 72 Folder 17
Minutes, reports and correspondence, circa 1945.
Box 72 Folder 18
Mullin, Carolyn (Director of Volunteers) correspondence, 1944-1945.
Box 73 Folder 1
Operating Committee minutes, 1943.
Box 73 Folder 2
Organization set-up, 1943.
Box 73 Folder 3
Outdoor activities, 1943-1946.
Box 73 Folder 4
Payroll, 1944-1945.
Box 73 Folder 5
Payroll stubs, 1943.
Box 73 Folder 6
Petty cash reports, 1943-1945.
Box 73 Folder 7
Policewomen's report and related materials, 1943.
Box 73 Folder 8
Program Committee minutes, 1943.
Box 73 Folder 9
Proposed permanent Labor Plaza, 1946-1947.
Box 73 Folder 10
Publicity, newspaper clippings and radio scripts, 1943-1944.
Box 73 Folder 11
Report on dissolution of Labor Plaza, 1947.
Box 74 Folder 1
Sponsor fund, financial documents and records, 1943-1944.
Box 74 Folder 2
Sponsors of "extras" at plaza (e.g. cigarettes), 1943.
Box 74 Folder 3
Unit Vending Corporation, 1943-1944.
Box 74 Folder 4
USO consolidated financial statement, 1946.
Box 74 Folder 5
Volunteer Committee minutes, 1945.
Box 74 Folder 6
Worker's compensation reports, 1945.
Box 74 Folder 7
Annual meeting, 1945.
Box 74 Folder 8
Budget reports, 1944-1945.
Box 74 Folder 9
Canteen Committee, 1945.
Box 74 Folder 10
Clubroom Committee, 1944-1945.
Box 74 Folder 11
Correspondence, activities, 1942-1943.
Box 74 Folder 12
Correspondence, Allied Jewish Appeal, 1941-1947.
Box 74 Folder 13
Correspondence, awards, 1944-1946.
Box 75 Folder 1
Correspondence, budget, 1943-1948.
Box 75 Folder 2-3
Correspondence, Defense Council, 1941.
Box 75 Folder 4
Correspondence, Hospital and Camp Volunteer Corps, 1947.
Box 75 Folder 5
Correspondence, property, 1944-1948.
Box 75 Folder 6
Correspondence, Rooftop Canteen/Rooftop Garden, 1943-1944.
Box 75 Folder 7-8
Financial and statistical reports, 1945-1947.
Box 75 Folder 9
Financial audits, Army and Navy Service Committee, 1941-1946.
Box 76 Folder 1-3
Financial ledger, circa 1943-1946.
Box 76 Folder 4
Food rationing, 1942-1943.
Box 76 Folder 5
Hosts meeting minutes, 1945.
Box 76 Folder 6
"Jewish Themes for Discussion", 1944.
Box 76 Folder 7
"JWB News", 1944-1946.
Box 76 Folder 8
Minutes of Committees Working for the Clubroom and Canteen, 1941-1946.
Box 76 Folder 9
Monthly financial reports, 1945-1948.
Box 77 Folder 1
Monthly statistical reports, 1945-1947.
Box 77 Folder 2
Lists of cooperating Jewish organizations, undated.
Box 77 Folder 3
Newspaper clippings, publications, circa 1947.
Box 77 Folder 4
Program Aid, 1940-1944.
Box 77 Folder 5-12
Program Aid, 1940-1944.
Box 78 Folder 1-3
"Program Service", 1942-1943.
Box 78 Folder 4
Rooftop Canteen/Rooftop Garden, development, 1944.
Box 78 Folder 5
"Sentinel", 1942-1945.
Box 78 Folder 6-7
Steering Committee minutes, 1943-1948.
Box 78 Folder 8-9
Veterans Service information, 1944-1945.
Box 78 Folder 10
"Volunteers in the USO Program", 1942.
Box 78 Folder 11
Working Committee minutes, 1944-1946.
Box 78 Folder 12
Activity reports, 1945-1947.
Box 78 Folder 13
Activity reports, 1945-1947.
Box 79 Folder 1
"Biography of a Canteen", undated.
Box 79 Folder 2
Board of Directors, minutes, correspondence, and reports, 1943-1944.
Box 79 Folder 3
Budget reports, 1944-1945.
Box 79 Folder 4
Building construction and maintenance, 1942-1944.
Box 79 Folder 5
Canteen Committee book, undated.
Box 79 Folder 6
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1944.
Volume 11
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1944.
Volume 12
Cash receipts and disbursements, United War Chest account, 1944.
Volume 13
Cash receipts and disbursements, YMHA & YWHA account, 1942-1943.
Volume 14
Certificates, 1945 and undated.
Box 97 Folder 4
Committee lists, 1944.
Box 79 Folder 7
Committee lists, undated.
Box 79 Folder 8
Correspondence, 1942-1945.
Box 79 Folder 9-11
Correspondence, 1942-1945.
Box 80 Folder 1
Correspondence, American Theatre Wing, 1944.
Box 80 Folder 2
Correspondence, Bainbridge Naval Hospital, 1946-1947.
Box 80 Folder 3
Correspondence, England General Hospital, 1945-1946.
Box 80 Folder 4
Correspondence, financial documents, 1944-1945.
Box 80 Folder 5
Correspondence, mobile unit, 1943-1944.
Box 80 Folder 6
Correspondence, New Castle Hospital and Byberry and Rush Hospital, 1946-1947.
Box 80 Folder 7
Correspondence, statistics, 1943-1944.
Box 80 Folder 8
Correspondence, US Naval Hospital, 1945-1946.
Box 80 Folder 9
Correspondence, Valley Forge General Hospital, 1946-1947.
Box 80 Folder 10
Donations Committee Correspondence, 1944.
Box 80 Folder 11-12
Entertainment Committee, 1943-1944.
Box 80 Folder 13
Entertainment Committee, 1943-1944.
Box 81 Folder 1-2
Entertainment schedules, 1944.
Box 81 Folder 3
Ephemera, undated.
Box 97 Folder 5
Favorite, Harriet (President of Stage Door Canteen), personal and business correspondence, 1945.
Box 81 Folder 4
Financial reports and correspondence with USD of Philadelphia, 1944.
Box 81 Folder 5
Food and refreshments, 1943-1944.
Box 81 Folder 6
Forms and passes, circa 1943.
Box 81 Folder 7
Furnishings and household supplies, 1944.
Box 81 Folder 8
Gas rationing, 1943-1944.
Box 81 Folder 9
Guest book, 1942-1943.
Volume 15
Guest book, 1942-1944.
Volume 16
Guest book, 1942-1945.
Volume 17
Guest book, 1943-1945.
Volume 18
Guest book, 1944.
Volume 19
Guest book, 1944-1945.
Volume 20
Guest book, 1944-1945.
Volume 21
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, autograph book, 1945-1946.
Volume 22
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, event log, 1945-1946.
Volume 23
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, stamp and ribbon banner, undated.
Box 81 Folder 10
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, petty cash reports, 1946-1947.
Box 81 Folder 11
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, activity report, 1947.
Box 82 Folder 1
Hospital Entertainment Canteen, monthly budget reports, 1946.
Box 82 Folder 2
Information directory, undated.
Volume 24
Insurance documents, 1943-1946.
Box 82 Folder 3
Legal documents, 1945-1948.
Box 82 Folder 4
Scope and Contents note

These materials were donated to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by F. Coleman Starr on January 13, 1949.

Legal documents and mailing list, 1942-1945.
Box 82 Folder 5
Letters of thanks from servicemen, 1942-1945.
Box 82 Folder 6
List of accounts, 1945-1946.
Box 82 Folder 7-8
Matinee hostesses register, circa 1945.
Box 82 Folder 9
Membership lists, Board of Directors, Hospital Entertainment Canteen, Women's Committee, 1944 and undated.
Box 82 Folder 10
Memos, reports and minutes from USO of Philadelphia Council, 1944.
Box 82 Folder 11
Men's Personnel Committee, 1942-1943.
Box 82 Folder 12
Minute book, 1942-1947.
Box 82 Folder 13
Minute book, 1942-1947.
Box 83 Folder 1
Mobile Hospital Entertainment Committee, 1943-1944.
Box 83 Folder 2
Monthly budget reports, 1943-1944.
Box 83 Folder 3
Monthly statistics, 1943-1945.
Box 83 Folder 4-5
Monthly statistics, treasury reports and correspondence, 1944-1945.
Box 83 Folder 6
Organization regulations, undated.
Box 83 Folder 7
Party budgets, 1945.
Box 83 Folder 8
Payments, 1945.
Volume 25
Personnel instructions, circa 1945.
Box 83 Folder 9
Petitions against closing Stage Door Canteen, 1945.
Box 83 Folder 10
Petty cash ledger, 1943-1946.
Box 83 Folder 11
Petty cash reports, 1943-1944.
Box 84 Folder 1
Poster, servicemen signatures, undated.
Box 97 Folder 14
President and Women's Committee, 1943.
Box 84 Folder 2
Priority assistance forms, 1944.
Box 84 Folder 3
Publicity Committee correspondence, 1943-1944.
Box 84 Folder 4
Purchases, 1945.
Volume 26
Signs likely displayed inside Stage Door Canteen, undated.
Box 97 Folder 6
Sketch artist applications, undated.
Box 84 Folder 5
Sketches of servicemen, 1945 and undated.
Box 97 Folder 7
Sales book, 1943-1945.
Box 84 Folder 6
Statistical reports, 1943-1944.
Box 84 Folder 7-8
Thank-you letters, 1946-1947.
Box 84 Folder 9
Treasury reports, 1943-1945.
Box 84 Folder 10-11
Ward, Charles F. (Executive Director) correspondence, 1942-1944.
Box 84 Folder 12-13
Watercolor sketchbook of Stage Door Canteen designs, by Emlen Etting, 1941.
Volume 27
Women's Committee minutes, 1942-1945.
Box 85 Folder 1-3
Women's Committee of Hospital Entertainment Committee, undated.
Box 85 Folder 4
Women's Personnel Committee, 1943.
Box 85 Folder 5

Air Raid Warden materials, circa 1942.
Box 85 Folder 6-8
America First Committee, circa 1940-1941.
Box 85 Folder 9
American Friends Service Committee, 1920-1947.
Box 85 Folder 10
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1940-1945.
Box 85 Folder 11
American Legion, undated.
Box 85 Folder 12
American Palestine Commission, 1944.
Box 85 Folder 13
American Red Cross, circa 1945.
Box 86 Folder 1
American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1941.
Box 86 Folder 2
American-Serbian Cultural Association, "The New Leader", 1945.
Box 86 Folder 3
Browder, Earl, 1941-1942.
Box 86 Folder 4
China Aid Council, 1939.
Box 86 Folder 5
Civil Service Commission, in-service training program, 1942-1943.
Box 86 Folder 6
Common Council for American Unity, leaflets, circa 1945.
Box 86 Folder 7
Election materials, 1940.
Box 86 Folder 8
Election materials, circa 1944.
Box 97 Folder 8
Ephemera, circa 1940-1947.
Box 86 Folder 9
Ephemera and radio program scripts, 1943-1946.
Box 86 Folder 10
Fellowship House, 1945-1947.
Box 86 Folder 11
Fellowship of Reconciliation, Philadelphia branch, 1943-1946.
Box 86 Folder 12
Fighting France publications, "Victory in the Fezzan", 1943.
Box 86 Folder 13
Financing the war, 2nd War Loan Drive, 1943.
Box 86 Folder 14
Financing the war, 3rd and 4th War Loan Drives, circa 1943.
Box 86 Folder 15
Financing the war, 5th, 6th, and 7th War Loan Drives, 1944-1945.
Box 86 Folder 16
Financing the war, International Stabilization Fund and miscellaneous savings bonds, circa 1943-1945.
Box 86 Folder 17
Financing the war, Victory Food Committee, 1942.
Box 87 Folder 1
Financing the war, Victory Loan Drive, circa 1945.
Box 87 Folder 2
Foreign Policy Association, undated.
Box 87 Folder 3
Friends of the Spanish Republic, 1945.
Box 87 Folder 4
Industry and the War, 1945.
Box 87 Folder 5
Institute of Life Insurance, 1945.
Box 87 Folder 6
Jewish concerns, ephemera and correspondence, 1938-1945.
Box 87 Folder 7
Labor's Non-Partisan Committee of Pennsylvania for Dewey and Bricker, 1944.
Box 87 Folder 8
Leeds and Northrup Company, circa 1944.
Box 87 Folder 9
Lutheran Service Center, circa 1940.
Box 87 Folder 10
Marine Corps and Maritime Service, 1943-1944.
Box 87 Folder 11
Mothers of America, 1940-1941.
Box 87 Folder 12
National and Philadelphia Councils on American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-1944.
Box 87 Folder 13
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 1941-1944.
Box 87 Folder 14
National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1941.
Box 87 Folder 15
National Council for Prevention of War, 1943.
Box 87 Folder 16
National Convalescent Service, 1945.
Box 87 Folder 17
National Republic, circa 1940.
Box 87 Folder 18
Navy League, circa 1942.
Box 87 Folder 19
Navy newsletters, 1945.
Box 87 Folder 20
"News maps," Army Information Branch, 1944-1946.
Box 87 Folder 21-23
"News maps," Army Information Branch, 1944-1946.
Box 88 Folder 1-4
Office of Civilian Defense, operations letters, 1942-1943.
Box 88 Folder 5
Office of Defense Transportation posters, undated.
Box 88 Folder 6
Office of Price Administration, ration forms and tokens, undated.
Box 88 Folder 7
Office of War Information, "Share the Burden Club", 1942.
Box 88 Folder 8
Paper conservation, 1943-1945.
Box 88 Folder 9
Patriotic Order Sons of America, circa 1944.
Box 88 Folder 10
Personnel Officers Training School, "Pot(s) Shots", 1942.
Box 88 Folder 11
Philadelphia Council for Conscientious Objectors, 1944-1945.
Box 88 Folder 12
Posters, undated.
Box 97 Folder 9
Russian War Relief, circa 1944.
Box 88 Folder 13
Salvage and Conservation Committee, reports, 1942.
Box 88 Folder 14
School District of Philadelphia, Board of Education, circa 1942.
Box 88 Folder 15
School Front Curriculum Aids for Victory, circa 1943.
Box 89 Folder 1
School Wars Service Committee, undated.
Box 89 Folder 2
Segar Recreation Center, print materials, circa 1944.
Box 89 Folder 3
Servicemen's Christian League, undated.
Box 89 Folder 4
Society of Friends, 1943-1946.
Box 89 Folder 5
State Council of Defense, Harrisburg (Pa.), 1942-1943.
Box 89 Folder 6
Technical Advisory Service, region 3, undated.
Box 89 Folder 7
"Uncle Sam's Problems" by Brown Lee Frix, undated.
Box 89 Folder 8
United China Relief, 1942.
Box 89 Folder 9
United National Clothing Collection, circa 1945.
Box 89 Folder 10
United Nations Council of Philadelphia, 1943-1946.
Box 89 Folder 11-12
United Seamen's Service Inc., "Hotel Tracy", circa 1945.
Box 89 Folder 13-14
United States Coast Guard, circa 1944.
Box 90 Folder 1
War Commission of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1944.
Box 90 Folder 2
War Department, circa 1941-1946.
Box 90 Folder 3
War Price and Rationing Board, undated.
Box 90 Folder 4
War ration wallet, circa 1946.
Box 90 Folder 5
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, undated.
Box 90 Folder 6
Writers' War Board, circa 1945.
Box 90 Folder 7
Yellow Cab Company, "Postscript" by Norman Jay, 1944.
Box 90 Folder 8
YMCA, War Prisoners' Aid, circa 1943.
Box 90 Folder 9
Youth of America, undated.
Box 90 Folder 10

Scope and Contents note

Most newspaper clippings can be found in the third subseries, "Clippings," or the fifth subseries, "Scrapbooks," although some additional clippings are disbursed throughout.

American Car and Foundry, undated.
Box 91 Folder 1
Aluminum Company of America, Cressona Works, 1944 April 15-16 and 1944 June 20.
Box 91 Folder 2
American Chair and Cable Company, undated.
Box 91 Folder 3
Arcrods Corporation (Sparrows Point, Md.), 1944 February 16.
Box 91 Folder 4
Art Loom Corporation, 1944 September 14.
Box 91 Folder 5
Art Metal Works (East Stroudsburg, Pa.), 1944 February 23.
Box 91 Folder 6
Atlantic Steel Castings Company (Chester, Pa.), 1944 June 22.
Box 91 Folder 7
Atlas Metal Stampings Company, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1945 March 21.
Box 91 Folder 8
Bethlehem Steel Company (Williamsport, Pa.), 1944 February 10 and 1944 April 10.
Box 91 Folder 9-11
Bethlehem Steel Company (Williamsport, Pa.), undated.
Box 91 Folder 12
Bethlehem Steel Company (Bethlehem, Pa.), 1944 September 21.
Box 91 Folder 13-14
Bethlehem Steel Company (Baltimore Yard) / Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, undated.
Box 91 Folder 15
Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc. (Sparrows Point, Md.), 1945 January 9.
Box 91 Folder 16-19
Birdsboro Rally, 1944 January 11.
Box 91 Folder 20
Congoleum-Nairn (Marcus Hook, Pa.), undated.
Box 91 Folder 21
Cramp's Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1944 April 11.
Box 91 Folder 22
Croasdale and DeAngelis Inc. (Oakmont, Pa.), 1945 February 12.
Box 91 Folder 23
Dravo Corporation (Wilmington, Del.), 1945 March 9.
Box 91 Folder 24
Earle Gear and Machine Company (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1944 February 14.
Box 91 Folder 25
Exhibition, 20 mm Anti-Aircraft, 1943 December 13-28.
Box 91 Folder 26
Exhibition, 40 mm Mobile Gun, 1944 November 1-17.
Box 91 Folder 27
Exhibition, Bombing pictures, 1944 January 31.
Box 91 Folder 28
Exhibition, Captured Enemy Equipment, undated.
Box 91 Folder 29
Exhibition, Rockets, undated.
Box 91 Folder 30
Frankford Arsenal, 1944 November 9.
Box 91 Folder 31
Heintz Manufacturing Company, 1943 November 11.
Box 91 Folder 32-33
Hendrick Manufacturing Company (Carbondale, Pa.), undated.
Box 91 Folder 34
J. T. E. Circuit Breaker Company, undated.
Box 91 Folder 35
Joyce Machine Company, undated.
Box 91 Folder 36
Koppers Company, American Hammered Piston Ring Division (Baltimore, Md.), 1945 January 19.
Box 91 Folder 37
Lebanon Steel Foundry (Lebanon, Pa.), 1944 August 1.
Box 91 Folder 38
Lehigh Structural Steel Company (Allentown, Pa.), 1944 May 9.
Box 91 Folder 39
McKay Company (York, Pa.), undated.
Box 91 Folder 40
Martin, Glen L., Company (Baltimore, Md.), undated.
Box 91 Folder 41-47
National Plastics Products Company (Odenton, Md.), 1945 January 19.
Box 92 Folder 1
National Plastics Products Corporation, undated.
Box 92 Folder 2-5
Naval Operations Base (Norfolk, Va.), 1945 July 19.
Box 92 Folder 6
Naval Supply Depot (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), 1945 May 30.
Box 92 Folder 7
Norfolk Navy Yard (Norfolk, Va.), 1943 November 9.
Box 92 Folder 8
Philadelphia Gear Works (Philadelphia, Pa.), undated.
Box 92 Folder 9
Philco Corporation (Trenton, N.J.), 1944 January 12.
Box 92 Folder 10
Pottsville Mills, undated.
Box 92 Folder 11
Proctor Electric Company, 1944 October 27.
Box 92 Folder 12
Radio Condenser Company (Camden, N.J.), 1943 April 5.
Box 92 Folder 13
Rheem Manufacturing Company (Sparrows Point, Md.), undated.
Box 92 Folder 14
Rheem Manufacturing Company (Danville, Pa.), 1944 February 10.
Box 92 Folder 15
Richmond Foundry and Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Richmond, Va.), 1945 May 15.
Box 92 Folder 16
John A. Roebling and Sons Company (Trenton, N.J.), 1944 June 21.
Box 92 Folder 17
Sun Oil Company (Marcus Hook, Pa.), 1944 May 24.
Box 92 Folder 18
Sun Shipyard (Chester, Pa.), 1943 November 4.
Box 92 Folder 19
Thornton Fuller Company, Philadelphia Mobile Shop Depot (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1945 February 9.
Box 92 Folder 20
Triumph Explosives, Inc. (Elkton, Md.), 1944 November 1-2.
Box 92 Folder 21
United States Foil Company (Hopewell, Va.), 1945 May 15.
Box 92 Folder 22
Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), 1944 April 5.
Box 92 Folder 23
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Essington, Pa./Sunbury, Pa.), 1944 September 15.
Box 92 Folder 24
Whitaker Cable Corporation, 1944 September 12.
Box 92 Folder 25
Wyeth Inc. (Marietta, Pa.), undated.
Box 92 Folder 26
Unidentified rally (Wilmington, Del.), undated.
Box 92 Folder 27
Unidentified rallies, undated.
Box 92 Folder 28-32
Miscellaneous recreation, undated.
Box 92 Folder 33
Stage Door Canteen, undated.
Box 92 Folder 34-40
Stage Door Canteen, undated.
Box 93 Folder 1-3
Stage Door Canteen, undated.
Box 97 Folder 10-11
Stage Door Canteen, Board of Directors, 1945.
Box 93 Folder 4
Stage Door Canteen, Emlen Etting designs, 1942 and undated.
Box 93 Folder 5
Stage Door Canteen, guests, undated.
Box 93 Folder 6
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, undated.
Box 93 Folder 7-17
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, undated.
Box 97 Folder 12
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, dancers, undated.
Box 93 Folder 18
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, movie actors, undated.
Box 93 Folder 19-23
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, musicians, undated.
Box 93 Folder 24-30
Stage Door Canteen, entertainers, theater, undated.
Box 93 Folder 31
Stage Door Canteen, space before and during renovation, undated.
Box 93 Folder 32
Stage Door Canteen, special attractions, undated.
Box 93 Folder 33
USO, 4th and 5th anniversaries, 1945-1946.
Box 93 Folder 34
USO press shots, undated.
Box 93 Folder 35-38
USO press shots, undated.
Box 94 Folder 1-2
Airports, Florida to Brazil, 1942-1943.
Box 94 Folder 3
Allentown, Pa. plants, 1945 January 3-4.
Box 94 Folder 4
Auto Car Company (Ardmore, Pa.), 1943 November 11-22.
Box 94 Folder 5
Baltimore, Md. plants, 1945 January 8-13.
Box 94 Folder 6
Bethlehem Steel, 1945 August 30.
Box 94 Folder 7
Big Savage Refractories Company (Frostburg, Md.), 1945 March 7-9.
Box 94 Folder 8
Central Iron and Steel Company (Harrisburg, Pa.), 1944 April 26.
Box 94 Folder 9
Charlottesville, Va. Plants, 1943 December 17.
Box 94 Folder 10
Clippings, 1941.
Box 94 Folder 11-16
Clippings, local campaign, 1941.
Box 94 Folder 17-18
C. R. Daniels Inc. (Daniels, Md.), 1945 January 8.
Box 94 Folder 19
Duplicate newspaper clippings, undated.
Box 94 Folder 20
Frederick Iron and Steel Company (Frederick, Md.), 1945 April 26.
Box 94 Folder 21
Millersburg, Pa. plants, 1944 May.
Box 94 Folder 22
Miscellaneous clippings, undated.
Box 94 Folder 23
Moulded Insulation Company (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1944 October.
Box 94 Folder 24
Norristown, Pa. plants, 1944 February 29.
Box 94 Folder 25
Pipe and Tube Products, Inc. (Reading, Pa.), 1945 July 23.
Box 94 Folder 26
Pottsville, Pa. plants, 1944 February 9.
Box 94 Folder 27
Roanoke, Va. plants, 1944 June 14.
Box 94 Folder 28
Salem, Va. plants, 1944 June 6.
Box 94 Folder 29
Sunbury, Pa. plants, 1945 February 15.
Box 94 Folder 30
Williamsport, Pa. plants, 1944 February 10.
Box 94 Folder 31
Burgess, Gladys, 1945 November 18.
Box 94 Folder 32
Identified portraits, circa 1944.
Box 94 Folder 33
Miscellaneous, circa 1945.
Box 94 Folder 34
Committee to Defend America scrapbook, 1940-1941.
Volume 28
Service Women's Club scrapbook, 1942-1945.
Volume 29
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942.
Volume 30
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942.
Volume 31
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942-1943.
Volume 32
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942-1943.
Volume 33
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942-1943.
Volume 34
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1942-1945.
Volume 35
Stage Door Canteen scrapbook, 1946-1947.
Volume 36
United Service Organization (USO) scrapbook, 1941.
Volume 37
United Service Organization (USO) scrapbook, 1942-1943.
Volume 38

Scope and Contents note

Mrs. Louisa M. Weber, a member of St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia, corresponded with over 76 servicemen during World War II. This series comprises letters from servicemen to Mrs. Weber, arranged alphabetically by sender.

Adler-Assenheimer, 1943-1945.
Box 95 Folder 1
Baehr-Barth, 1943-1945.
Box 95 Folder 2
Barth-Curry, 1943-1945.
Box 95 Folder 3
Deissler-Caltenstein, 1943-1945.
Box 95 Folder 4
Kappler-Nothe, 1943-1945.
Box 96 Folder 1
Sorger-Wildberger, 1943-1945.
Box 96 Folder 2
Newspaper article on Mrs. Weber, 1944.
Box 96 Folder 3

Correspondence regarding acquisition of World War II materials, 1942-1946.
Box 96 Folder 4-6
Correspondence regarding processing of United Service Organization (USO) series and photographs, circa 1981.
Box 96 Folder 7
Scope and Contents note

Photographs, circa 1973, are of Morton Shaffro (former president of the Philadelphia USO), Bob Hope (entertainer), Frank L. Rizzo (former mayor Philadelphia) and an unidentified opera singer.

Print, Suggest