Statistical summary of accessions, fiscal year 1946—Continued Records not in the custody of Federal agencies President's Committee to Report on the Rubber Situation United States War Ballot Commission. 395 6. 5 67 1 13 3. 4 6 44, 911 'The agencies of the Federal Government listed are the agencies from which the records were received except in the case of records not in the custody of Federal agencies. The sources of private gifts of motion pictures and sound recordings during the year are given in appendix VIII. 'All types of material are covered, including maps and atlases, motion pictures, sound recordings, still pictures, and microfilm; each of these special types of material is further analyzed in the other tables below. 'The accession from the White House Office consists of 9 documents, amounting to less than half a cubic foot. "The accession from the Joint Chiefs of Staff consists of 16 documents, amounting to less than half a cubic foot. Maps and atlases.-There was a substantial addition during the year to the body of archival maps and atlases in the National Archives. The 42,800 maps and 1 atlas received brought the total to 447,255 maps and 786 atlases in the custody of the Archivist. About half of these maps are manuscript or annotated and are therefore presumably unique. Most of the maps received came from the War Department. The Office of the Chief of Engineers transferred an important collection of about 22,000 maps of surveys made throughout the United States. by Army Engineers, 1800-1926. For the most part, they relate to the civil works activities of the Engineer Corps. From the St. Paul District Engineer Office came manuscript maps of rivers and reservoirs in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, 1866-95, including the F. V. Farquhar survey of 1874 of the lower Minnesota River and the upper Mississippi River below the Falls of St. Anthony. The Army Map Service continued to transfer maps relating to various countries and areas throughout the world, 1880-1943, and additional American Expeditionary Forces maps, 1917-18, were received. Other transfers include American Battle Monuments Commission maps of the Western Front during World War I, the 1943-44 manuscript topographic sheets of the Geological Survey, and an atlas of Texas map exhibits used in the Supreme Court of the United States in the Red River boundary dispute between Texas and Oklahoma in 1922. The additions to the map and atlas collection in the National Archives during the year, classified according to character and agencies of derivation, are shown in the table that follows: Additions to the map and atlas collection, fiscal year 1946 Motion pictures and sound recordings.-More than four times as much motion-picture film and twice as many sound recordings were received in the fiscal year 1946 as in the previous year. The accessions amounted to about 6,100,000 running feet of film and about 131,000 disks of sound recordings and brought the total quantity of such material in the custody of the Archivist to approximately 13,600,000 running feet, or the equivalent of 18,000 reels, of film, and 226,000 disks. All except 350 of the sound recordings came from Government agencies. They consist chiefly of Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service recordings of enemy broadcasts and of Office of War Information recordings of broadcasts by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and other United Nations leaders, by Navy Captain E. M. Zacharias to Japan, and by the Office of War Information itself to foreign countries. Practically all the motion-picture film received also came from the Government. It includes enemy motion pictures captured in Europe and the Pacific, War Relocation Authority films, such as "Go for Broke" about the famous Nisei regiment, training and incentive films, Office of War Information pictures relating to the war, and films used by the Office of Strategic Services for intelligence purposes. Among the gifts from private sources, which are described briefly at the end of appendix VIII of this report, are recordings of speeches by the late President Roosevelt and by President Truman, presented by the National Broadcasting Co., and news reels presented by Paramount News. The quantities of motion-picture film and sound recordings received during the year, classified according to the sources from which they came, are shown in the two tables that follow: Additions to the motion-picture collection, fiscal year 1946 Additions to the collection of sound recordings, fiscal year 1946 Still pictures.-To the more than 1,200,000 items in the stillpicture collection of the National Archives, 78,592 items were added during the year. Two-thirds of them came from the Navy Department and consisted largely of photographs of installations at Pearl Harbor, 1912-42, and of ships and naval personnel, 1870-1945. Another interesting group of pictures pertaining to Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the China Relief Expedition, and the Mexican Punitive Expedition was received from the War Department. The National Archives now has practically all the pictorial documentation to be found in Federal records of military activities of the United States from the Civil War through World War I. More than 3,500 photographs, including pictures of the National Archives Building and photographic facsimiles of historic documents in the custody of the Archivist, were accessioned from the National Archives' own records. The additions to the still-picture collection during the year, classified according to the agencies from which they were received, are shown in the following table: Microfilmed records.-Five times as many rolls of microfilmed records were received during the fiscal year 1946 as in the preceding year, 5,770 rolls as compared with 1,012 rolls. They consist mainly of microfilmed copies of 13,000,000 pages of the so-called intercepts and other records of the Office of Censorship. These and other transfers brought the total quantity of microfilmed records in the National Archives to 22,277 rolls. The additions to the microfilmed records in the National Archives, listed according to agencies of derivation, are shown in the table that follows: One of the main responsibilities of the National Archives is for the physical well-being of the valuable records of the Government in its custody. So far as steel and concrete can protect anything in this atomic age, the modern structure of the National Archives Building provides excellent conditions of storage. Equipment, such as airconditioning and burglar and fire alarm apparatus, also contributes its part toward the protection of the records. Fumigation of all records that come into the building prevents further contamination by mold and kills any insects or rodents that may lurk among the documents. Those records that need it, now about 80 percent of all received, are cleaned with compressed air to remove loose dust. In these phases of preservation the National Archives has been able to keep its work up to standard, but beyond them it has to report that limitations of staff have seriously handicapped its preservation activities. Unfortunately the great influx of materials into the National Archives that followed the entry of the United States into the war coincided with a serious reduction, about 35 percent, in the staff of the National Archives. Valuable records occupying space urgently needed by the war agencies had to be given a haven in the Archives Building. Had we closed our doors at that time-and of course we could not have done so even figuratively-we would have forfeited the confidence of other agencies, laboriously built up in the first 5 pioneer |