...Guide to the material in the National archives.
Series: Publication no. 14; Publication (United States. National Archives) -- no. 14
Publisher: United States Govt. print. off.
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: United States National Archives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Archives -- United States; Executive departments -- United States -- Records and correspondence
Genres: Records and correspondence
Notes: At head of title: The National archives

"The first general guide to the material in the National archives made its appearance early in 1936 as an Appendix to the third Annual report of the archivist of the United States...The present work is the sussessor to that initail guide."-Introd., p. ix

"For each agency of the government...that appears in the main portion of this guide there is a brief introductory statement, which deals principally with the history and functions of the agency."-p. xi

"Publications of the National archives": leaf at end