Records of the Office of the Director.

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Records of the Office of the Director.

Included are classified correspondence files, 1912-50, with indexes to letters received, 1918-49; a director's file, 1905-47, relating to Survey administration, policy, and programs; a branch, section, and division reports file, 1900-1912, consisting of annual and monthly reports; personnel data files, 1921-1941; office file of the Information Section, 1942-45; and records concerning the work of the vertebrate paleontologist of the Survey, 1882-99. Also records of the Section of Illustrations, including letters sent and reports, 1884-1938, illustrations for professional papers, 1902-38, bulletins, 1884-1948, water supply papers, 1905-48, annual reports, 1882-1932, circulars, 1933-34, monographs, 1890-1915, and other Survey publications, 1874-1925; letters sent by the Editorial Division, 1888-1906; summaries of articles concerning stratigraphy, 1876-1940; letters received by the Division of Engraving and Printing, 1940-48; files accumulated by the staff geologist of territories and island possessions, 1946-52; and records relating to the Federal Interagency River Basin Committee and other interagency committees, 1949.

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