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unusual facts about National Archives



Berlin Document Center

While the paper records remained in Germany, the entire collection was microfilmed and made available at the National Archives in Washington, DC, where researchers have much better access unhindered by restrictive German privacy laws now in effect in Berlin.

Button Gwinnett

In the 2008 role-playing game Fallout 3, a Protectron robot wearing a powdered wig has been left in command of the National Archives and due to a memory malfunction believes itself to be the real Gwinnett.

George Grieve

Vatel, who had examined some of his manuscripts in the National Archives, Paris, testifies to his thorough mastery of French, and his pamphlet, the copy of which in the French National Library contains autograph corrections, bespeaks a familiarity with the classics.

J. Franklin Jameson

Jameson began numerous annual publications and, with Waldo Leland, started lobbying Congress to create the National Archives, the building for which was first funded in 1926.

James Tague

This curb surrounding the scar chip was not cut out until August 1964, and is now in the National Archives.

National Archives of Australia

Dr Theodore Schellenberg, Director of Archival Management at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., visited Australia in 1954 on a Fulbright Scholarship and advocated the separation of Australia's national archives from the National Library.

Photography in Denmark

Many of her Native American images are preserved at the Smithsonian Institution and National Archives.

Ralph Neville

They are currently in the National Archives of the United Kingdom, having previously formed part of the Public Record Office.

Sarah Tyacke

It included the building of a greatly expanded repository on the office's site at Kew in 1995, and the subsequent removal of services from the old Public Record Office building in Chancery Lane; the opening of the Family Records Centre for family historians in 1997; and the merger of the office with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 2003 to form the new National Archives.

Solon J. Buck

In 1931, Buck was appointed professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, and when the U. S. National Archives were established in 1935 he was tapped to be Assistant Director, then in 1941 the second Archivist of the United States.

State paper

State papers are often kept in a country's National Archives, State Paper Office or Public Record Office.

Telegrafgränd

It was the location for the National Archives (Riksarkivet) and the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien (KVHAA) or Vitterhetsakademien for short) during the period 1848-1863.

Thatchergate

In January 2014 official government documents were released to the National Archives revealing the concerns of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

The Day After Roswell

This time, he was accompanied by Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C. and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts of Corso's public service.

The Law that Never Was

William Benson's book relates how, in 1984, nine years after the Scott case and seventy-one years after the ratification was proclaimed, Benson began a research project to investigate the ratification process by traveling to the National Archives and the capitols of various New England states to review documents relating to the ratification of the Amendment.

William Bruce Pitzer

Pitzer's death occurred the same day that the Kennedy family agreed, through their attorney, to release to the National Archives several items related to the autopsy of the fallen president, including photographs and x-rays.


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Albert H. Small

He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, National Advisory Board Music Associates of Aspen, Department of State Diplomatic Rooms Endowment Fund, James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, Tudor Place Foundation, The Life Guard of Mount Vernon, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Archives Foundation.

Department of National Archives

The headquarters of the National Archives is situated along Reid Avenue in close proximity to Independence square, Colombo and has a branch office in Kandy.

Horace Greasley

Guy Walters asserted categorically that the soldier in the picture was not Greasley, stating that the picture is held by the US National Archives and the caption details show it was taken in Minsk (in Belarus) in mid-1941, that it was taken by a photographer for a propaganda film and identifies the soldier as Soviet from his cap, and that the officers in the picture are the same officers who appear in the film with Himmler.

Irish Museums Association

Contributors include: Dr Guido Gryseels (Director, Royal Museum of Central Africa), Catriona Crowe (Senior archivist and Head of special projects, National Archives of Ireland), Dr Roisin Higgins (Senior Lecturer in History, Teeside University).

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

The Swords to the Knight's Cross were awarded 160 times according to the AKCR, among them the posthumous presentation to the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 13 of which cannot be supported by the German National Archives.

PUID

PRONOM Unique Identifier, a digital file locator used by The National Archives of the United Kingdom

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

In March 2005, the Nixon Foundation invited the National Archives to jointly operate the Nixon Library, and then-Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein allowed for the Nixon Library to become the twelfth federally funded presidential library, operated and staffed by NARA in conjunction with the Nixon Foundation.

Robert M. Warner

The National Archives, founded in 1934, had been part of the General Services Administration since 1949 and was controlled by political appointees.

Standard form

Standard Form 50 (or SF-50), is a Notification of Personnel Action, maintained by the National Personnel Records Center of the National Archives and Records Administration

Stanley Garrick

Nigeria Direct, Garrick Family, Palace of Benin, National Archives of Nigeria, Garrick Memorial School, Vanguard Newspaper Archives, Nigerian Bar Association, John Harris Library of the University of Benin

United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements

The Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives is a standing committee within the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.