Veterans' Advisory Commission records
Scope and Content
This record group contains minutes of meetings, special memoranda, lists of committee members, "town planning survey" material, a general file, a subkect file, field representatives' file, training files, public relations file, personnel and financial records.
Dates
- 1943-1949
Language of Materials
The records are in English.
Restrictions on Access
These records are stored at an off-site facility and therefore may not be available on a same-day basis.
See the Rules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured Collections policy.
Restrictions on Use
See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.
Historical Note
In the summer of 1943 Governor Raymond E. Baldwin, Jr. appointed the Connecticut Reemployment Commission to make plans for the orderly readjustment and reemployment of returning veterans and displaced war workers and to coordinate the efforts of all State, local and private agencies working toward that end. Carl A. Gray became chairperson, and he and most of the twenty-five or so unpaid members continued to serve until 1949, even though changes in title and function took place. A small full-time staff and director (James M. Quinn during most of the period) performed support functions.
In 1945 the General Assembly made the Commission a statutory agency, dropping its responsibility for displaced war workers and changing its name to the Veterans Reemployment and Advisory Commission. The agency operated principally by stimulating and assisting in the creation and operation of local disseminating information about employment and training opportunities and services available to veterans, and by publishing various bulletins, guides and a monthly, Reemploymnet.
The agency's name changed after the fiscal year 1947 to Veterans Advisory Commission. The Commission went out of existence on June 30, 1949.
Extent
20.25 cubic feet
Abstract
The Commission planned for the orderly readjustment and reemployment of returning veterans and displaced war workers and coordinated the efforts of all State, local and private agencies working toward that end.
Provenance
Found in the State Library’s Oak Street building in 1971, this record group was badly disarranged and some records appear to have been lost. After study and appraisal, some records were weeded out and staff put the remainder into something approaching their original order.
- Connecticut. Reemployment Commission -- Records and correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut. Veterans Reemployment and Advisory Commission -- Records and correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut. Veterans' Advisory Commission -- Records and correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Financial records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Labor supply -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Membership lists Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Memorandums Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Minutes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Notes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Personnel records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Press releases Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Radio scripts Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Reconstruction (1939-1941) -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reports Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Serials Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Unemployed -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Veterans -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Veterans -- Education -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Veterans -- Employment -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Veterans -- Employment -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- RG 049, Veterans' Advisory Commission
- Subtitle
- Inventory of Records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
- Date
- 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Connecticut State Library Repository
