American Battle Monuments Commission

Correspondence with line officers relating to daily operations at the front during World War I, maps of the American sectors, and drafts of historical studies and related material, 1923-38. 67 feet. Acc. 2089. RG 117.

Censorship Office

All known records of the Office, except those relating to “housekeeping" functions, 1941-45. 666 feet, including 4,344 rolls of microfilm. Acc. 1999 and 2000.

RG 216.

Fair Employment Practice Committee

All known records of the Committee, except personnel, fiscal, and property records, 1941-46. 205 feet. Acc. 2153 and 2154. RG 228.

Federal Communications Commission. Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Transcripts of foreign short-wave broadcasts and edited abstracts of broadcasts received at various monitoring stations and transmitted to other Government agencies, and daily and special reports, summaries, and interpretations of such broadcasts, chiefly January-September 1945, but with edited transcripts of intercepted prisoner-of-war messages from December 1943. 38 feet. Acc. 1925 and 1979. RG 173.

Federal Security Agency

Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, consisting chiefly of general correspondence and investigation material, 1939-43; and records of the National Youth Administration, consisting of ledgers and registers, 1935-42, and headquarters pay rolls, 1940-42. 133 feet. Acc. 1967. RG 35 and 119.

Federal Security Agency. Education Office

Records relating to the engineering, science, and management war-training activities of the Office, 1940-45, consisting of central correspondence files, fieldcoordination records, and proposals and related correspondence on the various programs and courses offered throughout the country under the sponsorship of the Office. 362 feet. Acc. 2067. RG 12.

Federal Security Agency. Food and Drug Administration

Indexes to closed cases under the Food and Drug Act, 1937-42, handled by the Office of the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture. 15 feet. Acc. 2129. RG 88.

Federal Security Agency. Public Health Service

Fourteen motion-picture films dealing with social diseases, cancer, and obstetrics, 1940-45. 55 units. Acc. 1981. RG 90.

Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1935-43, consisting of fragmentary records of the Office of the Administrator and of the Finance and Statistics Division. 48 feet. Acc. 2057. RG 69.

Federal Works Agency. Federal Fire Council

General files, 1930-41, including correspondence and minutes; and records of standing committees, 1932-44. 25 feet. Acc. 2108. RG 162. Federal Works Agency. Public Buildings Administration

Records of the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, consisting of all known records, with the exception of certain photographic materials, of the Public Works of Art Project, 1933-34, and the Treasury Relief Art Project, 1934-39; and records of the Section of Painting and Sculpture

and its successor, the Section of Fine Arts, 1934-39. 150 feet. Acc. 1986. RG 121.

Correspondence relating to the construction, repair, and maintenance of public buildings, 1934-39. 2,300 feet. Acc. 2213. RG 121.

Records relating to the acquisition and disposal of land acquired in payment of debt, 1805-1946; plans, photographs, and assignment charts of buildings sold, traded, or demolished, 1870-1945; correspondence relating to the administration of the Federal Real Estate Inventory, 1936-37; and additional records of the Federal Employment Stabilization Board, 1931-39. 33 feet. Acc. 2215. RG 121 and 187.

General Accounting Office. Reconciliation and Clearance Division

Original executed contracts of the War and Navy Departments, 1894-1926, and of other agencies of the Government, 1913-26. 2,578 feet. Acc. 2035 and 2155. RG 217.

Government Printing Office. Accounts Division

Allotment and pay-roll ledgers, appointment jackets, propositions and contracts, vouchers, deposit receipts, Treasury balances, and other financial records, 1861-1935. 234 feet. Acc. 1944. RG 149.

Interstate Commerce Commission. Docket Section

Formal case files relating chiefly to controversies between carriers and shippers over rates and conditions of service, 1917-24; investigation and suspense case files relating to suspensions of carriers' tariffs, 1925-34; and valuation case files relating to the initial valuation, under an act of 1913, of common carrier property, 1916-26. 1,668 feet. Acc. 1980. RG 134.

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Official United States originals of the German surrender documents, World War II, May 1945. 10 documents. Acc. 1946. RG 218.

Official United States originals of the instruments of surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, South East Asia, Ocean and Nauru Islands, the Ryukyus, and Saishu-To. September 1945. 6 documents. Acc. 1976, 1990, and 1991. RG 218.

Maritime Commission

Records of the Commission and its predecessors, consisting of deck logs of the New Orleans office, 1920-36, reports relating to the American merchant marine, 1937, pay rolls of laid-up vessels, 1918-31, trial trip reports of the Construction Organization, 1918-21, and records relating to rates and assignments, 1918-36, to construction loans, 1931-36, to the Black Committee investigation, 1933-36, to foreign ocean mail contracts, 1928-35, and to the codification of the navigation laws of the United States, 1920-28. 250 feet. Acc. 2130. RG 32 and 178.

Maritime Commission. Division of Insurance

General files of the Division of Insurance of the United States Shipping Board, 1918-36; records of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and Merchant Fleet Corporation relating to major insurance claims cases arising from marine disasters, 1918-39; insurance records relating to the "Pioneer Purchasers," 1919-39, and to the United States Transport Co. receiverships, 1918-39; and “particular” and "general average" insurance statements itemizing insurance losses as they relate to freight charges, cargoes, or vessels, 1919-39. 318 feet. Acc. 1998. RG 32.

National Archives

A motion picture of the ceremonies held in the Exhibition Hall of the National Archives Building in connection with the opening of the exhibit of the Japanese surrender documents, September 12, 1945. 1 unit. Acc. 2074. RG 64.

Photographs of the interior and exterior of the National Archives Building, 1935-45, and of the construction of the building, 1932–42; photographs of records in Federal, State, and foreign archival depositories, 1936-45; and photographic facsimiles of historic documents in the National Archives. 3,620 items. Acc. 2094. RG 64.

National Archives. Federal Register Division

Originals of Presidential proclamations and Executive orders, 1941-42, and certified copies, 1936-43; originals of rules, regulations, and similar documents of Federal administrative agencies, 1942-45, and certified copies, 1941-45; and photostatic copies of registers of Federal Register documents, 1936-39. 305 feet. Acc. 1975. RG 11.

National Labor Relations Board

Case files closed in 1941 covering the period 1937-41; and transcripts of hearings held by trial examiners in the field, with related exhibits, and of oral arguments heard by the Board in Washington, July 1941-June 1942. 395 feet. Acc. 2075. RG 25.

Selective Service System

Records of National Headquarters, consisting of bound sets of memoranda, opinions, bulletins, regulations, and annual reports of the Director, 1940-45. 3 feet. Acc. 2097. RG 147.

Cumulative illiteracy reports, October 1940-September 1941, compiled by the local boards in connection with a survey conducted by the National Headquarters to ascertain the extent of illiteracy among registrants. 3 feet. Acc. 2203. RG 147.

Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C.

Hospital records of the United States Soldiers' Home, consisting of registers of letters received and copies of letters sent, morning reports, registers of the sick, registers of deaths, copies of certificates of death, and records relating to enlisted men assigned to the hospital, 1852-1943. 5 feet. Acc. 2211. RG 231.

Tariff Commission

Sections of the general files relating to administration, 1921-39, and reports and related questionnaires and correspondence pertaining to commodities included in the tariff information surveys, 1918-21, made under the Tariff Act of 1913. 67 feet. Acc. 2179 and 2180. RG 81.

Veterans' Administration

Additional records relating to the title of the Government to certain properties of 12 field stations under the jurisdiction of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, 1919-45. 1 foot. Acc. 1973. RG 15.

RECORDS NOT IN THE CUSTODY OF FEDERAL AGENCIES

President's Committee to Report on the Rubber Situation. All known records of the Committee, 1942-45. Received from the former Chairman of the Committee. 3 feet. Acc. 2001. RG 220.

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President's Soviet Protocol Committee. All known records of the Committee, 1942-45. Received from the former Executive of the Committee. 4 feet. Acc. 1969. RG 220.

United States War Ballot Commission. All known records of the Commission, 1944-46. Received from the former Secretary of the Commission. 6 feet. Acc. 2149. RG 230.

Current events.

PRIVATE GIFTS

Motion Pictures

December 1944-June 1946. A series of 159 news reels. Presented by Paramount News. Acc. 2056, 2134, and 2221. RG 200.

German surrender documents exhibit. 1945. A motion-picture film made by the Army Air Forces showing the ceremony held on June 6, 1945, in the National Archives Exhibition Hall when the German surrender documents of World War II were placed on exhibit. Presented by Alfred L. Chaudet. Acc. 1932. RG 200.

PRIVATE GIFTS

Sound Recordings

Entertainment of military personnel. 1941. Sound recordings of a broadcast of Kay Kyser's program, “College of Musical Knowledge,” from the Marine Corps Base at San Diego on February 26, 1941. Presented by Kay Kyser. 2 units. Acc. 2052. RG 201.

Speeches by Presidents. 1943-46. Sound recordings of speeches made by and ceremonies participated in by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from May 2, 1943, to June 4, 1946. Presented by the National Broadcasting Co., Inc. 93 units. Acc. 2053, 2135, and 2220. RG 201.

Addresses by Senator Capper. 1945. Sound recordings of addresses entitled "Post War Problems" and "Reconversion Problems" delivered on March 25 and April 26, 1945. Presented by Senator Arthur Capper. 2 units. Acc. 1935. RG 201.

Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial broadcasts. 1945. Sound recordings of NBC broadcasts for a 3-day period following the death of President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. Presented by the National Broadcasting Co., Inc. 240 units. Acc. 1941. RG 201.

Japanese surrender programs. 1945. Sound recordings of NBC broadcasts of the Japanese surrender ceremonies and of a program in celebration of VJ-day, September 2, 1945. Presented by the National Broadcasting Co., Inc. 7 units. Acc. 1972. RG 201.

Victory Loan Train. 1945. Sound recordings of four broadcasts made aboard the Army Ground Forces Victory Loan Train No. 1 on November 5 and 28 and December 1, 1945, relating to the German and Japanese surrender documents. Presented by Thad Page. 4 units. Acc. 2049. RG 201.

Speech by Cardinal Glennon. 1946. A sound recording of a broadcast by John Cardinal Glennon from his titular church in Rome, February 28, 1946. Presented by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 unit. Acc. 2212. RG 201.

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