1917 Report to War Committee of The Lawyers Club NYC — WWI Resource Organization Charts & Recommendations — Charles Evans Hughes, Hamilton Fish Jr.

Original 1917 report booklet titled “Report to the War Committee of The Lawyers Club, New York City, Analyzing Existing War Resource Organizations — National, State and Local, with Charts and Recommendations.”Presented by Perley Morse and Robert C. Morris, and adopted May 31, 1917, just weeks after the U.S. entered World War I. This rare publication documents the early legal and civic mobilization of wartime resources by New York lawyers and officials. It includes the names of prominent figures such as Charles Evans Hughes (future Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), Hamilton Fish Jr., and other influential leaders from New York’s political and legal communities. The booklet contains multiple fold-out organizational charts (Exhibits A & B) detailing the national, state, and local structures of war resource coordination. These charts are often missing in surviving copies but are intact and legible here. Details: Published: May 31, 1917 — The Lawyers Club, 115 Broadway, New Yo