Inventory of the Records of the National Park Service: Record Group 79

Hill, Edward

This inventory is an updated version of the Inventory of the Records of the National Park Service published in 1966. Insofar as possible, the original language and inventory format have been retained. Many textual series descriptions were revised by adding lists of sites or subjects, either as part of the description or as a file title list in an appendix. Still picture descriptions now include series designations (for example, entry 185, Photographs of State Parks, is designated 79-SP). This designation is used to provide for specific item citations. Cartographic, motion picture, and sound recording series descriptions were revised to reflect accretions to the records. The large number of new series descriptions made it necessary to renumber the descriptive entries. Therefore, citations in published works that include the 1966 inventory entry numbers will not correspond to the entry numbers used in this inventory. Records of the National Park Service accessioned by the National Archives after the 1966 inventory was compiled are described in this inventory. They include the (Washington Office) Administrative Files, 1949-71; the Superintendents’ Annual Narrative Reports, 1980-2001; and records concerning budget and accounting matters, program coordination, management analysis, the National Park System Advisory Board, the Mission 66 Program, and the Job Corps Center Program. The revised inventory also includes series description for several new organizational units—the Office of Design and Construction, Division of Land Acquisition, and Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. The records of the National Capital Region now include many new series such as subject files, land acquisition files relating to Recreational Demonstration Projects, and surveyors’ notebooks for the District of Columbia. The records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company include four new series descriptions (entries, 240, 254, 290, and 301). The records of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, Civil War Centennial Commission, Woodrow Wilson Centennial Commission, and the National Parks Centennial Commission are also new additions to this inventory. This inventory also includes four series entries for electronic records.

Inventory of the Records of the National Park Service: Record Group 79

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