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These are the records of the Pennsylvania unit of the national War Production
Board that was created in 1942 and abolished in 1945. The unit's offices were
housed in the old State Museum (now the Matthew Ryan Building) during the war.
They may have been left there by federal employees when they departed in 1945,
or collected by Sylvester K. Stevens or Henry Shoemaker and transferred to the
present Museum and Archives building in 1965. The records include the lists
of names of the county chairmen, vice-chairmen, and local chairmen arranged
by county, War Production Board correspondence to and from Executive Secretary
of the Conservation and Salvage Division Colley S. Baker, a hand written ledger
entitled "Preferred Gasoline Register, 1944," Gasoline Rationing files,
applications for Supplemental and Occupational Mileage Ration, an alphabetical
correspondence file for Colley S. Baker, an alphabetical War Salvage Committee
Correspondence File, invoices and receipts, and miscellaneous items relating
to newspaper drives, tin, scrap harvest, etc.
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