Title: Brown County (Wis.). Council of Defense: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1941-1946

Creator:

• Brown County (Wis.). Council of Defense

Call Number: Brown Series 138

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records concerning eight World War II war bond drives conducted by the War Finance Committee of the Brown County Council of Defense. Records consist of correspondence, statistics, and reports of war bond sales for each drive.

Language: English

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Records concerning eight World War II war bond drives conducted by the War Finance Committee of the Brown County Council of Defense. The records were compiled by Joseph Donovan, a member of the Committee, and consist of correspondence, statistics, and reports of war bond sales for each drive. The correspondence, which is mainly routine, concerns meetings and collection strategies. The statistics list bond sales by town, village, and city, and individual name. Of greatest interest are the mobile unit reports made by the collectors. These reports document those individuals who did not purchase bonds, their reasons, and the efforts made to persuade them to do so. Also included is a report of the Brown County schools' participation in the war effort, discussing scrap metal collection, the Junior Red Cross, and curriculum changes. There is also documentation of a “Citizenship Day” ceremony, including two speeches.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Green Bay School District, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1979. Accession Number: M79-069

Processing Information

Processed by Barbara Gilson and Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, 1987.

	War Loan Drives
Box   1 Folder   1	1st, 1941 Sept.-1942 Oct.
Box   1 Folder   2	2nd, 1943 March-May
Box   1 Folder   3	3rd, 1943 July-Oct.
Box   1 Folder   4	4th, 1943 Dec.-1944 Feb.
Box   1 Folder   5	5th, 1944 March-July
Box   1 Folder   6	6th, 1944 Oct.-1945 Jan.
Box   1 Folder   7	7th, 1945 March-Aug.
Box   1 Folder   8	8th, 1945 Oct.-1946 Oct.
Box   1 Folder   9	Mobile Unit Reports, 1944
Box   1 Folder   10	War Efforts of Brown County Schools, undated