War Production Board Records

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

War Production Board Records

1943-1945

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep82c1cb1e0-e9c7-470b-8897-e8adf9a4c274

Records of the War Production Board concerning watches (including clocks and timers) so that both the civilian population and the military would be supplied with adequate and reliable timepieces.

2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11663020

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

United States. War Production Board

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v3cv8 (corporateBody)

The War Resources Board was established August 9, 1939, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a civilian advisory group to collaborate with the Joint Army and Navy Munitions Board in formulating economic mobilization policies. It was abolished November 24, 1939. The Advisory Commission to the World War I Council of National Defense was revived, May 29, 1940. Three of its functional divisions (Industrial Production, Industrial Materials, and Labor), responsible for the stockpiling and delivery o...