Welcome, 2022! Let’s start the new year by exploring some recently added records to the Catalog. With more than 160 million digitized pages of records available in the National Archives Catalog, there is always something new to discover.
More than 7,400 digitized pages have been added to this series, which include photographs, data tables, maps, and technical drawings that describe projects authorized under the Boulder Canyon Project Act, namely Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam), Boulder Power Plant, and the All-American Canal. The histories include information on project construction, operation, and maintenance. The records document the creation and construction of Boulder City, Nevada, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Photographs Relating to Federal Aviation Facilities, 1946 - 1972
This series contains 289 descriptions and 30,562 digitized pages consisting of photographs relating to the Federal Aviation Administration's area operations and facilities throughout Alaska. These locations and facilities include the Aleskya Oil Pipeline, Mt. McKinley or Denali, Merrill Field, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Akiak, Amchitka, Cordova, Fairbanks, Iliamna, Kodiak, Metlakatla, Nenana, Nome, Portage, Skagway, Juneau, Tanana, and Wrangel.
Information Cards for Inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, ca. 1947 - ca. 1947
This series consists of 10,012 digitized pages of an index to inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. Each index file includes the inmate's name, date of birth, nationality, and prisoner number. Files of deceased inmates are marked with a cross. The index, originally created by the German authorities in charge of the camp, is in German.
1,527 descriptions and 1,188 digitized pages make up this series of looseleaf notebook pages containing basic summary information about, and an identification photograph (frontal view of face), of each inmate. In some cases collateral material, such as disciplinary reports or news clippings, are also included.
Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 from the collection - President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration)
The Intelligence Files series includes 107 new descriptions and 1,828 digitized pages including charts, graphs, correspondence, memorandums, reports, and printed materials. The Central Intelligence Files subseries consists mostly of daily summaries of the military situation in Korea from June 1950 to January 1953, with references to political and economic issues, cease-fire negotiations, and communist propaganda. Also in the subseries are intelligence memorandums concerning Europe, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Israel, Yugoslavia, and China.
Start your year as a virtual volunteer! In the spirit of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, consider joining us as a Citizen Archivist. We have many new missions and featured records waiting to be transcribed.
For our latest mission, we are looking for help transcribing the captions of photographs relating to the Federal Aviation Administration's area operations and facilities throughout Alaska. These locations and facilities include the Aleskya Oil Pipeline, Mt. McKinley or Denali, Merrill Field, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Akiak, Amchitka, Cordova, Fairbanks, Iliamna, Kodiak, Metlakatla, Nenana, Nome, Portage, Skagway, Juneau, Tanana, and Wrangel.
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