Preliminary Inventory Of The Records Of The National Park Service
(Record Group 78)

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Inventory

1. Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to national parks and monuments, 1872-1916
2. Records of the War Department relating to national parks, 1892-1937
3. Records of the National Park Service

a. General records
b. Financial records
c. Records of key officials
d. Records of the Office of the Chief Counsel
e. Records of the Branch of Engineering
f. Records of the Field Headquarters in San Francisco
g. Records of the Branch of Plans and Design
h. Records of the Branch of Forestry
i. Records of the Wildlife Division
j. Records of the Branch of Recreation, Land Planning, and State Cooperation
  1. Records concerning recreational demonstration areas
  2. Records concerning the recreational-area study
  3. Records of the Development Division
    a. Records of the Project Application Section
    b. Records of the Work Control Section
    c. Records of the Progress Records and Cost Analyses Section
  4. Records of the Supervisor of Project Training
k. Records of regional offices
  1. Records of Region I
    a. Records of the Regional Wildlife Technician
    b. Records of the Regional Supervisor of the Recreation-Area Study
    c. Records concerning Recreational Demonstration Areas
    d. Records of Colonial National Historical Park
    e. Records of Yorktown National Cemetery
    f. Records of Petersburg National Battlefield
  2. Records of the National Capital Region
l. Photographic records and sound recordings
  1. Photographic records of the National Capital Region
  2. Motion Pictures and sound recordings
m. Cartographic records
  1. General cartographic records
  2. Cartographic records of the National Capital Region

4. Records of the Potomac Co. and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co.

a. Records of the Potomac Co.
b. Records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co.
  1. Proceedings and other records concerning the directors and shareholders
  2. Correspondence and related records
  3. Records concerning legal matters and land
  4. Records concerning construction and maintenance
  5. Records concerning traffic on the canal
  6. Financial records
  7. Other textual records
  8. Cartographic records

5. Records of the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall
6. Records of the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission
7. Records of the Battle of New Orleans Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission

Appendixes

I. List of areas for which there are records in the central classified files (entry 7)
II. Select list of decimal classifications used in the central classified files (entry 7)