Records of the Patents and Miscellaneous Division.

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United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of the Secretary. Records of the Patents and Miscellaneous Division.

Records of the Patents and Miscellaneous Division.

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Among records of this Division are 1) letters received, 1849-ca.1880, from the President, the Congress, and Government departments; letters received about the Executive Mansion, patents, the Department of Agriculture, the Patent Office buildings, pension legislation, bounty land claims, prisons and convicts, the Government Hospital for the Insane, and charitable institutions; a file of miscellaneous letters received, 1881-1907, with indexes and registers; decennial census records, 1849-1904; records relating to the administration of the territories, 1850-1911; and smaller series of letters received and sent, 1849-1906, with indexes. 2) Records relating to Pensions Office business, 1849-1920, include letters sent and received, 1896-1907, with indexes and registers; letters sent, 1849-83, with indexes, 1849-69; digests of decisions, 1852-64 and 1861-75; appeal books, 1867-1918, with indexes, 1881-1911; and records relating to pensions claims. 3) Records relating to suppression of African slave trade and to black colonization include letters received, 1854-72, letters sent, 1858-72, and a "Steward's Weekly Returns of Provisions" for the U.S.S. Atlanta, 1858-59. 4) Records concerning attorneys and agents include rolls of attorneys and agents, 1884-1907. 5) There are records relating to Government participation in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876; the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicagao, 1893; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, 1904, with documentation on the alaska Exhibit and the Indian Territory Exhibit; the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oreg., 1905, including the District of Alaska Exhibit; the Jamestown Ter-Centenntial exposition, Norfolk, VA., 1907; the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific jExposition, Seattle, 1909, including records of the Office of the Alaskan Exhibit; and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. 6) Records of the Returns Office, 1881-1904, consist of letters received and financial records. 7) Records of the U.S. Penitentiary for the District of Columbia, 1829-76, include minutes, annual reports, correspondence, and records of visits of the Board of inspectors; incoming letters and records of the warden's office; sentences of convicts; and financial and administrative records. The records consists of correspondence relating to expeditions and surveys, scientific work, printing and engraving, and applications for employment, 1852-61; and correspondence and other records concerning the isaac Stevens expedition, 1853-61. Records of the engineer and architect (Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs) supervising construction of the Pension Office building, 1881-89, include letters sent and received, with index and register of letters received, 1882-89; daily reports of the superintendent and a volume of plans, 1882-87; financial records, 1882-88; and personal records of General Meigs, 1882-89.

392 linear ft.

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