1. 75 Years of Primary Documents at the National Archives

2. National Archives in Washington D.C.

3. The National Archives is best known for preserving and exhibiting: Declaration Bill of Rights Constitution of Independence

4. NARA’s Mission To preserve and provide access to the permanent records created by the Federal Government.

6. The condition of War Department records stored in the White House garage illustrates the need for a National Archives.

7. Hoover lays cornerstone of National Archives Building on February 20, 1933.

9. FDR lays the cornerstone for his Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY in November 1939. The success of the Roosevelt Library paved the way for the enactment of the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955.

11. In this letter to the Continental Congress, General George Washington passed along information he received from a sailor. It was believed that British General William Howe was sending people out from Boston who had been deliberately infected with smallpox, so that they might pass on the disease to Americans in the surrounding area. Washington believed this to be a form of bioterrorism. 1775… ARC ID 824626

12. Manifest of Slaves for the Schooner Charles , July 4, 1842. Slave Manifests…

13. The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 ARC ID 299998

14. General Dwight D, Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, accompanied by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., inspects art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in a Salt Mine in Germany, April 12, 1945. ARC ID 531272 Captured German Records…

15. ARC ID 520694 General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945. Japanese Surrender Documents…

16. Indian treaties making transitory promises… Land granted to Choctaw Indian, Ha-cubbe by President James K. Polk per the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, December 6, 1845.

17. The Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase consists of three separate agreements between the United States and France: a treaty of cession and two agreements providing for the exchange of monies in the transaction. This item is the French exchange copy of the agreement providing for the payment of 60 million francs by the United States to France. It was signed by the future Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord. ARC ID 299807

19. NARA’s Holdings Include: ● 2.9 million cubic feet of paper records (more than 10 billion pieces of paper!) ● Almost 35 million still pictures and posters ● 18 million aerial photographs ● 5 million maps ● 93,000 motion pictures ● More than 207,000 sound and video recordings Laid side to side our original records would circle the Earth 57 times!! The Southwest Region alone holds 107,000 cubic feet of records.

21. National Archives Nationwide Network

23. National Archives at Fort Worth

24. Southwest Region’s Record Holdings The Southwest Region holds records that were created by federal agencies in the states of: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana.

28. Passenger Arrival Records

29. Declaration of Intention Andras Bucsanji ● Butcher ● 27 years old ● Hungary

30. Petitions for Naturalization John P. Keegan Native of Ireland

31. Bureau of Indian Affairs Record Group 75

32. Dawes Enrollment Card for William P. Rogers

33. Information located in the Enrollment Jacket for William P. Rogers

34. Cherokee Land Allotment Jacket for William P. Rogers

35. Federal Courts Record Group 21

36. Equity Cases

37. Bankruptcy Cases Slave Auction in a Bankruptcy File, 1847

38. Criminal Cases

39. Fort Smith Cases Bass Reeves , First African American U.S. Marshal

40. Wyatt Earp

41. Exhibits: Assault v. Murder

42. Chinese Exclusion Act

43. U.S. Attorneys—Record Group 118 Texas City Disaster, 1947

44. Coast Guard—Record Group 26

45. Life Saving Station Records Galveston, 1900

46. U.S. Customs Service Record Group 36

47. Selective Service System Record Group 163/147

48. Army Air Forces—Record Group 18 Kelly Field, San Antonio, 1938

49. Disappearance of Flight 19, Bermuda Triangle, 1945 Naval Districts and Shore Establishments Record Group 181

50. War Diary of the U.S.S. St. Louis for December 7, 1941

51. NASA- Record Group 255

52. Jenny McMillen Sweeney, Education Specialist National Archives at Fort Worth 817.831.5917 [email_address] www.archives.gov/southwest