Boys' Working Reserve correspondence, pamphlets, reports, and bulletins, 1917-1919.

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Boys' Working Reserve correspondence, pamphlets, reports, and bulletins, 1917-1919.

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Correspondence concerns the availability of boys for farm work; requests for supplies; enrollment in the Boys' Working Reserve; farm lessons; badges and awards. Bulletins and pamphlets concern training; organization; and publicity including copies of the program's official publication Boy Power. Record also includes mailing lists; reports; meeting and conference proceedings.

2 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Council of Defense (World War I)

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The Illinois State Council of Defense, comprised of fifteen gubernatorially appointed defense experts, was created on May 2, 1917 and served for the duration of WWI. Council duties included assisting and cooperating with the Council of National Defense and other state councils of defense; recommending necessary defense legislation; and administering state defense plans established with the Council of National Defense. Besides the authority to adopt its own procedures; the council could form comm...

United States Boys' Working Reserve.

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