Records of Regional Offices.

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Records of Regional Offices.

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Included are records of Region I, established in 1937 with headquarters in Richmond, including central classified files, 1936-52; records concerning work in the 23 States comprising Region I, 1935-44; correspondence of regional officers with district offices, 1936-37; records concerning WPA projects, 1936-42; inspection reports, 1938-43; monthly reports, 1936-41; master plans, 1935-42; and records of the landscape architect, 1934-38, of the regional engineer on dam construction, 1936-43, and of the regional geologist, 1935-42. There are also records of the regional wildlife technician, consisting of general records, 1936-42, monthly reports, 1936-40, weekly reports of the regional biologist, 1940-42, special reports, 1936-41, and reports of student technicians, 1937-38. Also included are records of the regional supervisor of the recreation area study, including general records, 1936-43, monthly reports, 1937-1942, Federal park use study reports, 1940-41, and records concerning the first national report on the recreation study, 1939-40; records concerning recreational demonstration areas, including records of land acquisitions, 1934-35, correspondence on projects with Resettlement Administration regional offices, 1935-36, and records relating to individual projects, 1934-41; records of Colonial National Historical Park, consisting of classified files, 1930-54, and relating chiefly to the observance of the Yorktown sesquicentennial in 1931 and subsequent annual celebrations; records relating to Yorktown National Cemetery, consisting of letters received, 1915-32 (with an index, 1922-29), letters sent, 1916-32 (with an index, 1922-29), and quarterly, 1917-25, and interment, 1910-29, reports; records of Petersburg National Battlefield, consisting of general records, 1935-53; and correspondence of the Petersburg National Military Park Commission and the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial Park Commission, 1928-33. Its records include those relating to repairs and alterations and additions of the White House and the Executive Office Building, 1925-37; drawings and tables of alterations and additions to executive offices, 1934; "Cabinet sketches" of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, n.d.; registers of burials, n.d., and visitors, 1879-1903, at Battleground National Cemetery; clippings about Washington, D.C., 1934-37; records of the Vicksburg National Cemetery, 1868-1913; and selected records from the "deed file" of the Land and Water Rights Division, 1865-1952.

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