Federal archives index, circa 1933.

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Federal archives index, circa 1933.

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Copy of a summarized checklist of Federal records in the Upper Record Room in the Custom House, New Orleans, La., by V.L. Landry Jr. Most of the records are for the Bureau of Customs. The volume contains an account of the books and papers disposed of by acts of Congress in 1918, 1927, and 1930. It also includes a copy of a letter (1908) from the Librarian of Congress with a list of the records deposited and retained in the Library of Congress selected by Worthington Ford, Chief, Division of Manuscripts.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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The Manuscript Division was one of several "departments" established in 1897 when the Library of Congress moved from the United States Capitol to a separate building nearby. Its staff of four assumed custody of a collection of twenty-five thousand manuscripts which had accumulated throughout the nineteenth century, chiefly through the purchase in 1867 of Peter Force's collection of Americana, the gift in 1882 of Joseph M. Toner's collection relating to George Washington and American medical hist...

Landry, V. L.

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United States. Bureau of Customs

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United States Customhouse (New Orleans, La.)

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Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of Worthington Chauncey Ford, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068790 American historical editor, bibliographer, and statistician. From the description of Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806452 Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941), the eldest son of Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Fowler Ford, first worked as a cas...