Falc n, October 1981. Individual pieces in folders were also given Arabic numerals.
Folders usually have a list of contents written on the front.
Bailey and Ben tez analyzed the material in each folder and placed the information on cards, which were then arranged into subject categories. Under the NEH cataloguing project a cataloguer started to go through the guide and to pull materials from folders and arrange them in the same order as the guide. Soon it was obvious that the arrangement of the Bailey-Ben tez guide was overly complex and impractical. The subject breakdown was particularly cumbersome and resulted in overlapping of categories. Entries for large colonial dossiers often did not describe the contents or subject matter.