Milwaukee County Council of Defense Records, 1910-1925

Container Title
Series: 4: Department of Public Affairs, 1916-1920
Scope and Content Note: The Department of Public Affairs assisted with educational and patriotic meetings, military affairs, loans and war savings, and the activities of the Men’s and Women’s District Councils. Committees such as the Military Extension Committee focused specifically on Milwaukee-area soldiers, including the planning and preparation of their entertainment, education, and mobilization, as well as collecting general soldier information. This series contains correspondence, reports, minutes, and materials on the war-time activities from the various wards and suburbs of Milwaukee County.
Box   13
Folder   5
America's Tribute to Britain, 1918
Box   13
Folder   6
American Protective League and the Department of Justice (disloyalty), 1917-1918
Box   13
Folder   7
Americanization Committee, 1917-1918
Box   14
Folder   1
Boy's Working Reserve, 1917-1918
Box   14
Folder   2
Church Survey and Organizations Within, undated
Box   14
Folder   3
Community Thanksgiving Service, 1918
Box   14
Folder   4
Education Committee, includes telegraphy, 1917-1918
General Files
Box   14
Folder   5-6
Blank Forms and Mailings, 1918-1919, undated
Box   14
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1917-1918, undated
Box   14
Folder   8
Descriptions and Planning Documents, 1918
Box   27
Folder   2
Lists, 1918, undated
Box   14
Folder   9
Meetings and Reports, 1917-1918
Liberty Loans
Box   14
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1917-1918
Box   39
Record Cards, wards: 10, 15, 19, 21, 24, undated
Men's District Organizations
Box   15
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1917-1918
Box   27
Folder   3
Reports and General Files, 1917-1918
Box   27
Folder   4
Suburbs, 1918
Box   15
Folder   2
War Fund and Liberty Loans, 1918
Box   27
Folder   5-9
Wards 1-15, 1917-1918
Box   28
Folder   1-3
Wards 16-25, 1918
Military Affairs Committee
Box   36
Folder   1-21
Casualty Blank, World Conflict Information Obtained, 1918-1920
Box   15
Folder   3
Community Reception Committee, 1918-1919
Box   15
Folder   4
Demobilization, 1919, undated
Box   15
Folder   5
Hadley Pressure Cooker, 1918
Box   28
Folder   4
Medical Advisory Board, 1918
Box   28
Folder   5
Reports and Descriptions, 1918
Box   15
Folder   6
Rotary Club Loans, 1918-1919
Soldier Index
Box   43
Aa-Bl, 1918, undated
Box   44
Bo-Cm, 1918, undated
Box   45
Co-El, 1918, undated
Box   46
Em-Gn, 1918, undated
Box   47
Go-He, 1918, undated
Box   48
Hi-Ka, 1918, undated
Box   49
Ke-Kud, 1918, undated
Box   50
Kue-Mah, 1918, undated
Box   51
Mai-Mul, 1918, undated
Box   52
Mum-Ph, 1918, undated
Box   53
Pi-Ro, 1918, undated
Box   54
Ru-Se, 1918, undated
Box   55
Sf-Ta, 1918, undated
Box   56
Te-Wen, 1918, undated
Box   57
Wer-Z, 1918, undated
Box   15
Folder   7
Y.M.C.A., war work, 1917-1918
Military Extension Committee
32nd Division
Box   28
Folder   6
honors, includes Backers of the 32nd, 1917-1919
reunion list, 1920
Box   15
Folder   9
Allotments and Insurance, 1918
Box   15
Folder   10
Correspondence and Reports, 1917-1918, undated
Draft Boards and Selective Service
Box   28
Folder   7
African American enlistments, 1917
Box   28
Folder   8
Camp Custer enlistments, 1917
Box   15
Folder   11
correspondence, 1917-1919
Box   28
Folder   9
lists of draftees and enlistments, 1917-1918
Box   15
Folder   12
precinct boundaries and polling locations, 1918
Box   16
Folder   1
registration day, 1918, undated
Entertainment
Box   16
Folder   2-3
correspondence, 1917-1918
Box   64
Folder   3
moving picture houses and theaters, 1916, undated
Box   28
Folder   10
subscriptions, 1917
Gold Star Soldiers
Box   16
Folder   4
certificates, 1918-1919
Box   40
index, undated
Box   16
Folder   5
lists, 1918-1919
Box   16
Folder   6
Home Guard and National Guard, 1917-1918
Box   16
Folder   7
Lists, 1918
Box   16
Folder   8
Milwaukee County Publishers and Their Publications, 1918
Box   16
Folder   9
Mobilization and Entrainment, 1917-1918
Box   16
Folder   10
Music, 1918
Box   16
Folder   11
Newspapers and Other Publications, 1917-1919, undated
Box   17
Folder   1
Pledges and Subscriptions, 1918
Box   17
Folder   2
Publicity, includes British and American Aviators, 1918
Box   17
Folder   3
Smileage Books, 1918
Soldier Pals
Box   17
Folder   4
correspondence, 1917-1918, undated
Box   41
index, A-L, undated
Box   42
index, M-Z, undated
Box   17
Folder   5
Speakers Bureau, 1917-1918
Box   17
Folder   6
Tobacco Funds, 1918
Training and Education
Box   17
Folder   7
correspondence, 1917-1919
Box   28
Folder   11
lists and descriptions, 1918-1919
Box   17
Folder   8
Publicity Committee, posters, publications, press releases, etc., 1917-1918
Red Cross Committee
Box   17
Folder   9
Correspondence and Reports, 1917-1919
Box   18
Folder   1
Junior Red Cross, 1917-1918
Box   18
Folder   2
Loyalty Records, 1918
Box   18
Folder   3
Membership and War Fund Campaign, 1917-1918
Box   18
Folder   4
Worker's Daily Reports, 1918
Box   18
Folder   5
Wisconsin Loyalty Legion/Wisconsin Defense League, 1917-1918
Women's Advisory Committee
Box   18
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1917-1918
Box   28
Folder   12
Liberty Loans, 1918
Box   29
Folder   1
Lists and Reports, 1917-1918, undated
Box   18
Folder   7
Meeting Request, 1917
Box   18
Folder   8
Red Cross Fund and Armband Sales (relief), 1917-1919
Box   19
Folder   1
U.S. Student Nurse Reserve Campaign, 1918
War Savings and Thrift Campaign
Box   29
Folder   2
by ward, 1918
Box   19
Folder   2
correspondence, 1918
Box   19
Folder   3
Women in Industry, 1917-1918
Women's Ward and District Organizations
Box   19
Folder   4
meetings and descriptions, 1917-1918
Box   29
Folder   3-4
wards and suburbs, 1917-1918