District Supervisors' correspondence and administrative files, 1936-1942.

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District Supervisors' correspondence and administrative files, 1936-1942.

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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, travel orders, supply requisitions, time sheets ("employee depositions") and occasional employment applications ("personnel questionnaires"). These records were used by the district supervisors of the Historical Records Survey and were periodically transferred to the office of the state director, mostly in 1941 and 1942.

13.9 cu. ft. (18 boxes)

New York State Archives

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