MILITARY COLLECTION XI. WORLD WAR I PAPERS, 1903‐1933, LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS
Box No. Contents
1 General Records: Bond sale statistics, 1917‐1918 Correspondence, 1918‐1919 Government publications, publicity materials, and other records related to liberty loan campaigns, 1917‐1919 Lists of county chairpersons, 1917, 1919, n.d. News releases from Office of Secretary of the Treasury, May‐June 1917 Newspaper clippings, 1917‐1919
[2‐4] Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, Fourth Campaign: correspondence of Mrs. R. H. Latham, state chairperson
2 General correspondence, 1918‐1919 Correspondence with county chairpersons, Alamance‐Durham, 1918‐1919
3 Correspondence with county chairpersons, Edgecombe‐ Northampton, 1918‐1919
4 Correspondence with county chairpersons, Onslow‐Yancey, 1918‐1919
[5‐6] Speakers’ Bureau: correspondence of R. D. W. Connor, chairman of the Speakers Committee, N.C. Council of Defense, who arranged speakers for the second war fund campaign of the American Red Cross, school commencement exercises, and the Third Liberty Loan during the spring of 1918. Prior to the Fourth Liberty Loan in September 1918, Connor was appointed chairman of the Speakers’ Bureau, Central Liberty Loan Committee for North Carolina. He served in the same capacity for the Victory Liberty Loan in the spring of 1919. [See also Council of Defense, Box 16, Speakers Bureau, which are D. H. Hill’s files; and Organizations, Box 5, American Red Cross]
5 Correspondence, Third Liberty Loan, March‐May 1918 Correspondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, September 1918
MILITARY COLLECTION XI. WORLD WAR I PAPERS, 1903‐1933, LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS Box No. Contents
6 Correpondence, Fourth Liberty Loan, October‐November 1918, n.d. Correspondence, Victory Loan, February‐June 1919, n.d.
[7‐9] War Savings Stamps Campaign
7 North Carolina War Savings Committee: Correspondence of R. D. W. Connor with Francis H. Fries, state director, N.C. War Savings Committee, and correspondence of Kate M. Herring, director of publicity, 1917‐1918, 1920 News releases, National War Savings Committee and N.C. War Savings Committee, 1918 [softbound] Newspaper clippings, 1917‐1919 North Carolina War‐Savings News, newsletter of the Publicity Department, N.C. War Savings Committee, 1918 [softbound] Publications: includes booklet, History of War Savings Campaign in North Carolina, 1918 (2 copies); program for North Carolina Day, December 14, 1917; pamphlet, “War Savings in Great Britain,” by Basil P. Blackett, 1917; and issue of The Outlook, November 20, 1918, containing article by Kate M. Herring
8 Mary G. Shotwell Collection: papers of Mary G. Shotwell, educational director, U.S. Treasury Department, War Loan Organization, Fifth Federal Reserve District, Richmond, Va. [previously assistant superintendent of Lenoir County Public Schools, Kinston, N.C.] Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1917‐1921, and map titled, “The New Europe,” 1919 [removed and filed as MilColl.WWI.Maps.451] Out‐of‐state materials concerning the teaching of thrift in public schools, 1917‐1921 Poems, jingles, and plays relative to war savings stamps, written by schoolchildren, 1917‐1921
MILITARY COLLECTION XI. WORLD WAR I PAPERS, 1903‐1933, LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS Box No. Contents
8 (cont.) Printed materials: includes lesson plans concerning thrift and savings, prepared by the U.S. Treasury Department, Savings Division, Eighth Federal Reserve District, 1920‐1921; eleven issues of “The School Thriftogram” and seven issues of “Thrift in the Schools,” newsletters issued by Shotwell, 1920‐1921; news releases from the Division of Publicity of the War Loan Organization, Richmond; and form letters from Shotwell, 1921 Publications relating to saving: includes two issues of National School Service, March 15, May 1, 1919 Publications relating to the thrift program: booklets and pamphlets concerning the teaching of thrift in public schools, 1917‐1921, and three issues of The Thrift Magazine, October 1917, May 1918, and January 1921 Savings Society membership pledge charts Miscellaneous: includes drafts of lectures; notes; booklet, Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors U.S., 1917; and two photographs: war savings display prepared by the Uncle Sam Society at Murphey School in Raleigh; and a young girl in Huntington, West Virginia, with a chicken, three large eggs, and a War Savings Stamp hand‐grenade bank, 1921
9 Guilford County War Savings Committee: correspondence of Thomas R. Foust, chairman, 1917‐1919 Correspondence with Francis H. Fries, state director, 1917‐1919 Correspondence with National War Savings Committee, 1917‐1919 Correspondence, general: alphabetical by correspondent, 1917‐1919 Miscellaneous, 1917‐1918