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8 unusual facts about National Archives and Records Administration


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.

Film base

The year 1978 was particularly devastating for film archives when both the United States National Archives and Records Administration and George Eastman House had their nitrate film vaults auto-ignite.

Heinrich Hoffmann

These are now held by the National Archives and Records Administration and comprise an important source of images for scholars of the Third Reich.

Historic Blenheim

Once the name and regiment of a soldier were confirmed, files were pulled from the National Archives and Records Administration.

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.

Vietnam War Crimes Working Group

In 1990 Kali Tal, the editor of a small-circulation journal called Vietnam Generation, was tipped off to the existence of the Vietnam Working Group records by an archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration.

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.


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.

Presidential Records Act

Executive Order 12667 - Issued by President Reagan in January 1989, this executive order established the procedures for NARA and former and incumbent Presidents to implement the PRA.

SM UB-65

National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington: 1984

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.

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.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government

The most diverse subcommittee, it also oversees funding for the Executive Office of the President and the Office of Management and Budget as well as various independent federal agencies, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Election Commission, the National Archives and Records Administration, and Office of National Drug Control Policy.


see also

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