United States Hydrographic Office Manuscript Charts in the National Archives, 1838-1908

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National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1978 - 250 páginas
 

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Página v - Archives as part of its records description program. The special list describes in detail the contents of certain important records series, that is, units of records of the same form or that deal with the same subject or activity or that are arranged serially. Its form and style are not fixed but vary according to the nature of the records to which it relates. Its distinguishing characteristic is that it goes beyond the general description contained in a record group registration statement, a preliminary...
Página iii - Nation's history, but most of them are preserved because of their continuing practical use in the ordinary processes of government, for the protection of private rights, and for the research use of scholars and students. To facilitate the use of these materials our archivists prepare various kinds of finding aids that describe their nature and content. The present work is one such publication. We believe that it will be of value to anyone who wishes to use the records it describes.
Página v - War are described in Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War (1962), Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America 1968), and...
Página 139 - Map of a Portion of Venezuela and British Guiana Showing the Advance of English Claims on Venezuelan Territory. Compiled and Drawn by T. Heyward Gignilliat 1895.
Página v - Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (1968), and Civil War Maps in the National Archives (1964); those of World War I in Handbook of Federal World War Agencies and Their Records...
Página 61 - Brief Rules for the Use of Oil to Protect Vessels in Stormy Waters [From the prize essay submitted to the Hamburg Nautical Union by Capt. R. Karlowa of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company. In the illustrative figures, the flowing lines represent the spreading oil and the arrows denote the direction of the wind and sea.] Scudding before a gale, figure A, distribute...
Página 110 - Panama between the Gulf of San Bias on the Atlantic and the mouth of the Chepo (or Bayano) River on the Pacific.
Página v - The records themselves are described series by series, that is, by units of records of the same form or that deal with the same subject or activity or that are arranged serially.
Página iii - FOREWORD The General Services Administration, through the National Archives and Records Service, is responsible for administering the permanent noncurrent records of the Federal Government. These archival holdings, now amounting to more than...
Página v - Its form and style are not fixed but vary according to the nature of the records to which it relates. Its distinguishing characteristic is that it goes beyond the general description contained in a record group registration statement, a preliminary inventory, or an inventory and describes records in terms of individual record items. In addition to lists and other finding aids that relate to particular record groups, NARS issues publications that give an overall picture of materials in its custody....

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