This series contains selected records retained from disposal as examples of the work done in various branches and departments of the Weather Bureau. Volumes and documents included in the files are: Records of Shipments (December 1, 1893 to September 5, 1900), Requisition for Supplies (April 16, 1917 to August 1, 1919), Record of Property from Stations (October 15, 1903 to December 18, 1907), Records of Deliveries (May 26, 1915 to July 27, 1917 and February 2, 1931 to October 22, 1934), Records of Purchases and Deliveries (December 2, 1908 to April 8, 1910), and Samples of Purchases and Services (July 2, 1892 to November 26, 1894).
Also within the series contains general correspondence involving the Chief of the Bureau, Charles Lindbergh’s “Lindbergh Again Flies the Air Mail" good will tour souvenir mail covers from February 20, 1928, List of Awards Showing Contractors and Prizes for Material and Supplies Contained in the General Schedule from 1913, National Archives report on Climatological records transferred from the Weather Bureau and Smithsonian Institution from 1940, a Registered Mail Log (May 5, 1908 to May 1, 1909), correspondence with weather observers, Congressional correspondence, and the report “Narrative Procedure for the Degree-Day Analysis Phase of New York City, Works Progress Administration Climatological Project, August 1942, Statistical Division.”
The files as well contain Weather Bureau Form 1078 Daily Precipitation totals compiled in 1941 for: Amherst, Massachusetts from 1849, 1851 to 1940; Blue Hills, Massachusetts from 1885 to 1892 and 1930 to 1940; Boston, Massachusetts from 1851 to 1859 and 1865 to 1940; Fall River, Massachusetts from 1861, 1874 to 1892, and 1914 to 1940; Lake Cochituate, Massachusetts from 1914 to 1940; Lawrence, Massachusetts from 1857 to 1859, 1861 to 1881, and 1930 to 1931; Lowell, Massachusetts from 1914 to 1939; New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1875 to 1892 and 1930 to 1937; Springfield, Massachusetts from 1898 to 1940; Williamstown, Massachusetts from 1852, 1854 to 1940; and Worcester, Massachusetts from 1854 to 1871, 1876 to 1891, and 1930 to 1940.
Form 1078 Daily Precipitation totals also include the locations: Baltimore, Maryland from 1837 to 1861 and 1864 to 1940; Saint Louis, Missouri from 1852, 1854 to 1865, and 1867 to 1890; and Gardiner, Maine from 1843, 1852, 1855 to 1860, 1862 to 1890, and 1892 to 1940.
Further volumes include; Record of Typewriters in the Weather Bureau (1890 to 1909), an Index to Letters (1915), Requisitions Register Index (1924), Property Purchases at Stations (July 23, 1902 to July 26, 1910), Contract Prices for Supplies from the Department of Agriculture (June 30, 1905), Contract Schedules (1906 to 1907), Records of Orders (1918 to 1920), ledger on postage stamp usage (December 1, 1900 to October 31, 1903), Record of Chalk Plates (January 1, 1908 to 1911), and Receipts for Property (June 26, 1902 to May 16, 1903).
More volume samples includes Order Receipts Volume 31 (December 17, 1908 to November 16, 1915); Chalk Plate Correspondence (September 1, 1911 to August 2, 1912); items from the Division of Accounts and Disbursements of the Department of Agriculture, Transportation Receipts Volume 38 (January 3, 1905 to June 20, 1905; from the Division of Accounts of the Department of Agriculture, Transfers (of Property) Volume 8 (March 22, 1893 to August 7, 1893); and from the Weather Bureau’s Division of Supplies, Invoices Volume 85 (July 9, 1915 to December 10, 1915), Correspondence (August 5, 1907 to November 14, 1907), Broken or Defective Property Receipts (August 11, 1911 to January 13, 1912), and Central Office Invoices and Receipts Volume 5 (November 7, 1913 to January 4, 1915).
Lastly, this series contains two card indexes; an “Index to Package of Unpublished Hydrologic Data in the Attic of Smithsonian Institution in 1937" and an “Index Prepared by Mrs. Fay Kidd, 1958” covering portions of Smithsonian meteorological material from the late 1800s.
