Inventory of federal archives, 1936-1937.

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Inventory of federal archives, 1936-1937.

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Fieldworkers' inventory work sheets for Illinois Civil Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, and the U. S. Post Office archives include separate forms for agencies, serials, buildings, and rooms. Agency forms list city/town name; department/office and subdivision name; establishment date; administrative reorganization description; agency building name and location; other buildings occupied and occupation dates; archives loss or destruction with damage date, cause and extent; "useless" paper policy; sending archives to Washington headquarters; information source; additional information sources; record condition comments; agency handling procedures; project supervisor's name; and inventory date. Serial forms list city/town name; building name and address; room number; custodial and originating agencies or subdivisions; serial title; inclusive dates; serial description noting type and organization; use frequency; index or inventory description; archives physical form (i.e., size and volume (i.e., linear feet)); container number and type; physical damage or deterioration; information sources; fieldworker's and project supervisor's names with the inventory date. Building forms list city/town name; building name and location; construction date and type; fire hazard danger, whether there has been any fire or other damage (i.e., dates; damage extent); precautions and protective devices; and project supervisor's name with inventory date. Room forms list city/town name; building name and address; room number, use, pest and archival impediments; and project supervisor's name with the inventory date. File also includes Historical Records Survey official correspondence concerning survey and administrative histories.

6 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Works Progress Administration.

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United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...

Historical Records Survey (U.S.)

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The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. In 1935 it came under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and eventually was designated as an independent program under Federal Project No. One. The projects, ideally suited for white collar workers, employed individuals to survey, classify and collect historical records. One program of the HRS was to document American portr...

Illinois Historical Records Survey

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The Illinois Historical Records Survey (1935-1943), created in 1935 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) located and described Illinois federal, state, county, municipal, and church archives. After operating as a separate project within the WPA's Women's and Professional Division (Aug. 1936), the survey expanded to include Illinois manuscript depository inventories and newspaper Lincolniana (1938). With the Works Progress Administration name change t...