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Social Security Textual Records in NARA II
Detailed Inventory of Social Security Record Collections
Group 4: Records of the Office of the Commissioner


Table 3: Office of the Commissioner, Commissioner's Files (34 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 1)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 18 4
Box 1: AM-1 thru AM-7
Box 2: AM-8 thru AM-9-3
Box 3: AM-93 thru AM-9-14
47 130 37 18 5
Box 4: AM-14 thru CL-9
Box 5: CL-10-6 thru CO-12
Box 6: CO-12 thru FM-4
47 130 37 18 6
Box 7: FM-4-2 thru FM-8-2
Box 8: F-9-8-4 thru HI-8
Box 9: HI-8 thru IA-11
47 130 37 18 7
Box 10: IA-11 thru PE-6-3-1
Box 11: PE-6-34 thru PE-11
Box 12: PE-11 thru PE-18-1-1
47 130 37 19 1
Box 13: PE-18-1-1 thru PE-21
Box 14: PE-23 thru PA-24
Box 15: PA-28 thru PA-29
47 130 37 19 2
Box 16: PA-29-3 thru PA-33
Box 17: PA-33-2 thru PI-2-2
Box 18: PI-2-2 thru PI-4
47 130 37 19 3
Box 19: PI-4 thru PI-4-1
Box 20: PI-4-1 thru RM-2-8
Box 21: RM-3-6 thru SP-4
47 130 37 19 4
Box 22: SP-4 thru TG-14
Box 23: TG-14-1 thru TR-9
Official Correspondence Files, 1961-74 (boxes 24-34)
47 130 37 19 4
Box 24: AD thru AM-9-2
47 130 37 19 5
Box 25: AM-9-3 thru CL-7
Box 26: CL-9 thru CL-18
Box 27: CL-18 thru CO-9
47 130 37 19 6
Box 28: CO-10 thru ER-9
Box 29: FM-2-4 thru HI-10
Box 30: IA-6 thru PA-16
47 130 37 19 7
Box 31: PA-28 thru PE-6-6
Box 32: PE-7 thru PI-2-3
Box 33: PI-4 thru RM-1
47 130 37 20 1
Box 34: RM-2 thru TR-4-3


Table 4: SSA-Office of the Commissioner (9 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 2)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 20 1
Box 1: General correspondence including Staff communications re Medicaid Task Force
Box 2: Recommendations & Background Material distributed to Medicaid Task Force members / General meeting folders
47 130 37 20 2
Box 3: General info on several health programs / Gen'l info on Task Force such as objective, bio sketches on members, letters of acceptance to members, etc.
Box 4: Alpha File A to T / Travel Folders-Atkins to Brewster
Box 5: Medicaid Task Force meetings and various panel meetings held between July 25, 1969 through June 29, 1970 in Washington, D.C.
47 130 37 20 3
Box 6: Alpha File U to Z / Travel Folders Brown to White / General Travel info. Folders
Box 7: Management Panel & Effectiveness Panel Information / Decision on Organization & Final Substantive content of the Final Report
Box 8: Misc. reports re Medicaid Task Force including Pearl Purboon's (?) final report. The file on correspondence between the Secretary & McNirney (?) and the Task Force membership folder.
47 130 37 20 4
Box 9: Background material for meetings and recommendations resulting from various meetings / Pre-meet mailings & other mailings


Table 5: Office of the Commissioner, Official Correspondence Files, consisting of the Commissioner's Background Files, 1970 through 1972 (11 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 3)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 20 4
Box 1: AM to AM-14, 1970-1972
Box 2: AM-14 to CL-1, 1970-1972
47 130 37 20 5
Box 3: CL-4 to CL-18-2, 1970-1972
Box 4: CL-18-2 to EC-10
Box 5: EP-1 to FM-3, 1970-1972
47 130 37 20 6
Box 6: FM-4-2 to PE-6-3-1, 1970-1972
Box 7: PE-6-3-1 to PE-19-5
Box 8: PE-21 to PA-28
47 130 37 20 7
Box 9: PA-28-1 to PA-39
Box 10: Family Assistance Program, 1970-1972
Box 11: Adult Assistance, 1970-1972


Table 9: SSA-Office of the Commissioner (5 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 7, this MLR entry reads 27/25/7-27/26/2 BUT it should read 37/25/7-37/26/2)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 25 7
Box 1: Black Lung '69-1975 / Adult Asst. & Medicaid Eligibility, 1973
47 130 37 26 1
Box 2: BSSI 1973-74
Box 3: Family Asst. 1971 / President's Proposal on Family Sec. 1973 / BSSI July '74-Dec. '74
47 130 37 26 2
Box 5: BSSI Jan. 1973-Oct. '73


Table B23: Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Speeches and Articles, 1946-50 (6 boxes)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

Although the Bortz descriptions here refer to Records Boxes, and thus translate into 6 Archives Boxes, the number of boxes involved is small enough that the researcher can effectively narrow the descriptions down to a manageable number of boxes.
X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-A1, Entry 28
Boxes 1-2
The contents of these two boxes provide information on Commissioner Altmeyer's philosophy and thinking toward virtually every aspect of social security, in the years 1942-1952. Some speeches go back as far as 1919. These speeches were presented before various groups--medical, academic, fraternal, religious, welfare, organized labor, State officials, and inter-American groups. In these addresses, Mr. Altmeyer treated topics related to Social Security Administration responsibilities, which included old-age insurance, unemployment compensation, health insurance, children's welfare, and public assistance. The commissioner's articles covered about the same subjects, and were directed to all audiences that might have had an interest.

There is also considerable correspondence to and from Mr. Altmeyer; particularly significant is that with Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg in the 1940's, over the question of freezing the social security tax. There is also the considerable testimony that Mr. Altmeyer presented before congressional committees. A few pieces of correspondence with the President (including a recommended veto message relating to social security legislation) indicate his relationship with the Chief Executive. Miscellaneous items include press clippings, especially editorials; survey data on numerous subjects; and congressional proposals, along with Mr. Altmeyer's reactions to them.

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5

Box 1: Medical Care (11 Pamphlets) to Michael Davis-"Choice of Doctors"
Box 2: Michael Davis (articles by) to 1945 Tax Freeze-Miscellaneous Material 1944
Box 3: Canada-Social Security System 1942 to U.S. Senate 1947
Box 4: House of Ways and Means 1946 to Coverage of Doctors 1951

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Box 5: Altmeyer article/talk 1952 to Work Clause-Offset 1944
Box 6: Tax Rate Freeze 1945 to Tax Rate Freeze 1942


Table B24: OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 1946-1950 (58 boxes)
Here again Bortz's descriptions are at the Records Box level and the actual records are in Archives Boxes.
X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD, Entry 6
Boxes 37-39 000-027.1
Of note in these boxes are the analyses and comments made on various legislative proposals (State and Federal) in the field of social security. The most important ones relate to the background and interpretation of the 1950 amendments. Included are: the original Administration proposals; testimony given at congressional hearings; and relations with the various interested groups--business, industry, organized labor, social welfare organizations, etc. Of interest also are materials on the work carried on and discussions held on disability and health insurance, although no legislation on them was passed during these years.

Under 013 are important dealings with the Department of the Treasury and with the Internal Revenue Service on the 1950 amendments. These deal with interpretation, tax collection, and the feasibility of placing income and social security taxes into one combined system.

Under 025 the files reflect relations with and the activities of various advisory councils and other groups that studied old-age and unemployment insurance, children's welfare, training, personnel matters, and related subjects. Of particular interest in connection with the 1947-1948 Advisory Council to the Senate Finance Committee were the discussions held among the Social Security Administration's staff on the question of whether this advisory group should be placed on a permanent basis. The advisory groups treated in these materials include not only those made up of persons from outside the Social Security Administration, but also those within, and those composed of interagency personnel as well.

Dealings with foreign groups such as the Inter-American Committee on Social Security and the International Labor Organization are reflected under 027. A number of folders, alphabetically arranged, provide details about the many persons--many of them from other countries--who came as trainees to learn about the social security system. The files reflect considerable dealings in this area, especially in connection with the two U.S. Government social welfare attaches who were stationed in India and France.

Box 40 031 (1949)-040.1-2 (January-June 1949)
The 031 materials reflect the relationship with the Chief Executive on budget matters and submittal of suggested items for the President's state of the Union message. This material also includes answers to the inquiries referred by the White House; dealings with the President's Council of Economic Advisers and with various presidential committees set up to study such subjects as migratory labor. Dealings with the House and Senate (032) are reflected by only a very few items.

Under 040 there are several reports on the Federal Security Agency's regional organization, made by outside consultants; comments by the Social Security Administration on the changes recommended; comments on proposals by the Hoover Commission--including that for a Department of Health, Education and Security; and reference to the 1949 organizational changes, including the shift of the Bureau of Employment Security out of the Social Security Administration.

Boxes 41-42 040.2(1950)--064.2(1949)
A few items reflect the relations developed with other agencies. Of note are those with the Department of the Treasury and the United Nations, and particularly those with the Federal Security Agency, as shown in reports of meetings.

The bulk of the material in these two boxes, however, relates to research activities. There are data on research in general, on the income of various population groups, on the issue of confidentiality of research findings, and on various types of pension and insurance plans in the health, accident, welfare, and retirement areas. These involve both Government and non government plans. The files indicate constant dealings with the Bureau of the Census on aspects of collecting statistics and in interpreting them.

The 056 materials relate to research on health and disability insurance; to meetings attended, and the reports, surveys and proposals discussed within the agency; the views of the American Medical Association on these subjects; and administrative problems involved in the possible passage of Federal legislation covering health and disability insurance. Other types of materials here include analysis of a reinsurance proposal, and various developments and problems in workmen's compensation.

Under 058 are such topics as: Social Security Administration income, and costs of administering its programs; arguments pro and con on the grant-in-aid programs to States, including costs and other pertinent materials that go as far back as 1936; Federal-State relations in general, including various suggested formulas for grant-in-aid; the trust fund, its status, and monthly collections; actuarial cost estimates of various other insurance and welfare programs; and data covering State government financing. Important on the subject of Federal-State relations are the files showing the views of the National Association of State Budget Officials.

Material on the informational function of the Social Security Administration is filed under 060. Included are details on the agency's functions, how it was organized and administered, and particularly how it was affected by budget changes in these years. A considerable amount of material relates to the 15th anniversary of the Social Security Act; the views of the public and special groups toward the social security programs; the use of various media to get the social security story across; and keeping Social Security Administration personnel informed of what was going on within the organization. There is correspondence that treats of the many outside publications to which information, advice, and comment were provided; as well as evidence of publications the Social Security Administration itself was turning out, in such form as the Social Security Bulletin, Foreign Social Security Notes, and the OASIS News.

Boxes 43-47 100-316
These five boxes cover several general areas: fiscal matters, personnel, and some of the administrative responsibilities. The 100's relate to fiscal developments, including budgets and their justification; personnel standards, particularly under State merit systems; allotments and expenditures; distribution of costs among the various bureaus of the Social Security Administration; and control over funds in the Federal-State grant-in-aid programs.

The 200 series is concerned with personnel matters, including staff requirements and ceilings; job descriptions; awards to employees; individual folders reflecting staff travel and meetings; requests for jobs and for job transfers, from Congressmen and from individual applicants; regulations on recruiting and on the use of consultants and interns; fair employment practices; and procedures in paying employees, in making promotions, in adopting employee suggestions, in rating employee performance, taking educational and military leave, setting hours of work, and in detailing, retiring, and dropping employees. There are also periodic reports that reflect the organization's size in these years.

The 300 series concerns administration. Here there are all kinds of administrative orders and bulletins, agency orders, and field service bulletins put out by the Social Security Administration and the Federal Security Agency or their components. Subjects included are work plans, training, personnel and property matters, and procedural methods for bringing policy matters to the attention of the commissioner for action. In this connection there are meeting agenda, correspondence, and some summaries of the general staff meetings and of the meetings the commissioner had with his bureau directors. Some of the administrative manuals put out by the Federal Security Agency and the Social Security Administration and its bureaus are here, too. Much emphasis was put on organization and on methods involving reports and conferences. The subject areas include management improvement and employee suggestions. In all these the researcher will find much reflecting the needs, goals, problems, issues, and opportunities of each of the bureaus and units involved. Employment Security letters distributed to State employment security agencies, provide insight into the issues and problems in that area of responsibility. The Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance had a similar communication for distribution to its field personnel, as did also the Bureau of Public Assistance. The Regional and Field Letter series covers the broader Federal Security Agency responsibilities.

Under 313 can be found the rationale and procedures followed in the retention of agency records.

Boxes 48-50 317(1949)-349(1949)
As in the collections described earlier in this guide, the 317's are invaluable in providing a source for historical information. Here are located the various periodic reports submitted by bureaus, offices, divisions and other organizational units. They include annual, semiannual, quarterly and monthly reports; among them are operating and progress reports, work plans, or forecasts and guides. Comments on and analysis of these reports give an added dimension.

Providing significant research from a slightly different approach are the 320 records. They reveal much on policy matters, procedures, and on organizational changes (including decentralization). They are shown in the areas of responsibility assigned; in the coordination of activities within the Social Security Administration, and in relation to the Federal Security Agency and other agencies; and by way of the committees established to carry out administrative functions. Useful are the memorandums, reported discussions, minutes or summaries of meetings held inside and outside the agency; data collections of all sorts on budgetary items; and especially those records that treat the field organization of the Social Security Administration and of the Federal Security Agency.

The procedures for securing and accounting for property and office supplies, and for determining building needs in the field and at headquarters (particularly for the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance) are filed under 340. Naturally, this subject involved contacts with congressional committees that were responsible for appropriations. There are also documented here the organizations to which the Social Security Administration sent staff representatives.

Boxes 51-52 360-800.1
The 360's, which detail travel regulations, finish up the administrative group of records.

A number of folders deal with employment security (the 500 series) in the period before the transfer of this function to the Department of Labor in 1949. There are data on program costs, fiscal standards, the labor market, and some periodic reports on the development of employment security legislation in the States. The attitude of insurance companies toward legislation on temporary disability is shown, and reports on conferences and discussions, as well as memorandums, present some information on the State employment security agencies. Other subjects include: recruitment of personnel, segregation practices, and State merit system standards; work loads; experience-rating data; coordination with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, with local welfare agencies, and with other local and State agencies.

Also in box 51 are public assistance materials (the 600 series). Subjects treated or touched upon are: relations with the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance and with the Children's Bureau on mutual problems; cooperative research; treatment of Indians; relations with the United Nations and other organizations, particularly in regard to the blind; contacts with State officials and such organizations as the American Public Welfare Association; medical care; legislation on permanent and total disability; review of bills introduced into State legislatures; Bureau of Public Assistance goals (program achievements sought); meetings with State administrators on carrying out the 1950 amendments; State plan material, and correspondence on the simplifying of procedures so as to provide for plan review in the regional offices, rather than having all of the plans sent to Washington for approval; the State merit systems, and dealings with the Office of Federal-State Relations in the Federal Security Agency; grant-in-aid regulations and procedures; apportionment of funds to programs; auditing policy; hearing procedures in the States; medical care (vendor payments and monetary payments); and confidentiality of information about public assistance recipients.

Material concerning the old-age and survivors insurance program is found in the 700 series. It is in the form of statistical matter, studies, and analytical notes. Subjects treated include the number of claims coming in and processed; the number of applications submitted for benefits; resources of persons covered by the program; proposals for changes in the law, such as a "double-decker" system; the costs of universal coverage; and the possible use of a stamp plan for agricultural and domestic workers. The attitudes of various groups toward social security (particularly organized labor and the National Association of Manufacturers) were analyzed.

The files contain replies to inquiries on various aspects of the program, particularly on the status and financing practices of the trust fund. There is correspondence with various groups who opposed coverage or who wanted to be brought under coverage--business groups, nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities; and with employees of Federal, State, and local governments, with military service veterans, Mexican nationals, Americans living abroad, employees of foreign or American-owned ocean-going vessels, and foreign claimants.

Several items treat the 1950 amendments in detail: carrying out its provisions; corresponding with the new groups to be covered; computing the new benefits; interpreting technical and substantive changes; defining the terms to be used in connection with the amendments; interpreting tax regulations; and the altered relationship with the railroad retirement system, resulting from the 1950 amendments. The question of confidentiality of wage records is treated in correspondence with State officials, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Veterans' Administration, and other organizations.

A number of items concern civil defense plans (the 800 series). This subject brought the Social Security Administration into contact with various agencies and made it a participant in civilian defense exercises in a number of cities. There is also material on the Social Security Administration's welfare responsibilities during World War II.

Boxes 53-54 095 (A-Z)
Although these records make up two full boxes, there is little of any significance. As was true of the 095 files for other groups, these alphabetically arranged folders reflect the correspondence carried on with individuals, organizations, groups, and Congressmen. Unfortunately, these contain many cross-reference sheets, requests for publications, and complaints from claimants on benefits. The only really worthwhile items are found in the two large folders of correspondence with Edwin E. Witte, conducted mainly by Wilbur J. Cohen, as technical advisor to the commissioner. These two folders do make up an invaluable source, providing as they do analyses of the 1950 amendments, the attitudes and philosophy of Witte, some inside glimpses of activities at the administrative level in the Social Security Administration, and--to a limited extent--in the academic world and among professional public welfare organizations outside the Federal Government.

Other folders containing some items of interest are the following:
Frank Bane (executive director, Council of State Governments)
Harry Becker (director, United Auto Workers-CIO Social Security Department)
James Brindle (Medical Care Committee, American Public Welfare Association--Committee for the Nation's Health, Council of State Governments)
Nelson H. Cruikshank (director, Social Security Department, American Federation of Labor)
Mary W. Dewson (former member of the Social Security Board)
Loula Dunn (director, Alabama State Commission of Public Welfare)
Henriette Epstein (widow of Abraham J. Epstein)
B.M. McKelway (editor, The Washington Evening Star)
Marion B. Folsom (later, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare)
William Haber (professor, University of Michigan)
Helen F. Hohman (former member of the Bureau of Research and Statistics; then professor at the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago)
International Labor Office
C.A. Kulp (professor of insurance, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania)
New York Times
Princeton University
George B. Robinson (defender of social security against M. Albert Linton, Lewis Meriam, and other critics)
Sumner Slichter (economist, Harvard University)
Herman Somers (professor and an expert on medical care)
Gerard Swope (noted industrialist)
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
Wisconsin University

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Box 1: 000 to 000.4
Box 2: 000.5 to 011.1
Box 3: 011.1 to 011.1
Box 4: 011.1 to 011.1
Box 5: 011.1 to 021

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7

Box 6: 021 to 026
Box 7: 026 to 027
Box 8: 027 to 027
Box 9: 027 to 027
Box 10: 027 to 027
Box 11: 027 to 032
Box 12: 032 to 040

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1

Box 13: 040 to 040.01-1
Box 14: 040.02-9 to 040.52
Box 15: 040.6 to 045.2-4
Box 16: 049 to 051.03
Box 17: 051.11 to 056.111
Box 18: 056.111 to 058.1
Box 19: 058.101 to 064.1

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Box 20: 064.1 to 064.13
Box 21: 064.2 to 064.2
Box 22: 095 (A) to 095 (Car)
Box 23: 095 (Ch) to 095 (E)
Box 24: 095 (Fi) to 095 (K)
Box 25: 095 (Ke) to 095 (New York, Misc.)
Box 26: 095 (N) to 095 (Sm)

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Box 20: 064.1 to 064.13
Box 21: 064.2 to 064.2
Box 22: 095 (A) to 095 (Car)
Box 23: 095 (Ch) to 095 (E)
Box 24: 095 (Fi) to 095 (K)
Box 25: 095 (Ke) to 095 (New York, Misc.)
Box 26: 095 (N) to 095 (Sm)

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4

Box 34: 241.7 to 300.12
Box 35: 300.12 to 300.5
Box 36: 300.5 to 301
Box 37: 301 to 310.11
Box 38: 310.11 to 310.11
Box 39: 310.11 to 312.12
Box 40: 312.12 to 312.12

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Box 41: 312.12 to 312.221
Box 42: 312.221 to 317
Box 43: 317.1 to 317.2/21-2
Box 44: 317.2/21-3 to 317.8
Box 45: 317.8 to 317.8/21.1
Box 46: 317.8/21-2 to 317.8/21-3
Box 47: 317.8/21-6 to 320.5

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Box 48: 321 to 321-1.1
Box 49: 321-1.2 to 321.6
Box 50: 321.8 to 341.11
Box 51: 341.2 to 361.17
Box 52: 361.17 to 532
Box 53: 532 to 620.1
Box 54: 621 to 700.02

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Box 55: 700.1 to 721.117
Box 56: 721.3 to 750
Box 57: 750/00.1 to 752.223
Box 58: 752.223 to 800.011


Table 28: Records of the Office of the Commissioner-Notes of Proceedings of the Board of Social Security, the Commissioner of Social Security, and the Welfare Commissioner ("Informal Notes"), 1936-67 (16 Boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-A1, Entry 26-A)

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ROW

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SHELF

47 130 57 11 3
Box 1: January-October 1936
Box 2: November 1936-June 1937
Box 3: July 1937-June 1938
Box 4: July 1938-March 1939
Box 5: April-December 1939
47 130 57 11 4
Box 6: January-December 1940
Box 7: January 1941-June 1942
Box 8: July 1942-July 1943
Box 9: August 1943-December 1944
Box 10: January 1945-July 1946
Box 11: August 1946-December 1948
Box 12: January 1949-December 1952
47 130 57 11 5
Box 13: February 1953-December 1957
Box 14: February 1958-January 1963
Box 15: February 1963-August 1967
Box 16: Welfare Commissioner, Minutes of Staff Meetings, 1963-67


Table 65: Office of the Commissioner - Commissioner's Decisions, 1935-1963 (30 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-A1, Entry 39)

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ROW

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SHELF

47 130 58 25 2
Box 1: Document No. 11 - Document No. 947
47 130 58 25 3
Box 2: Document No. 948 - Document No. 1299a
Box 3: Document No. 1301 - Document No. 1884
Box 4: Document No. 1887 - Document No. 2294
47 130 58 25 4
Box 5: Document No. 2295 - Document No. 2599 December 28, 1937
Box 6: Document No. 2600 December 28, 1937 - Document No. 2849 February 19, 1938
Box 7: Document No. 2850 February 19, 1938 - Document No. 3157
47 130 58 25 5
Box 8: Document No. 3158 - Document No. 3399
Box 9: Document No. 3408 - Document No. 3592
Box 10: Document No. 3602 - Document No. 3899
47 130 58 25 6
Box 11: Document No. 3909 November 1, 1938 - Document No. 4179 January 6, 1939
Box 12: Document No. 4180A January 6, 1939 and March 14, 1939 - Document No. 4431 a-d March 31, 1939 through May 26, 1939
Box 13: Document No. 4435 - Document No. 4781A June 30, 1939 and September 29, 1939
47 130 58 25 7
Box 14: Document No. 4782A June 30, 1939 and September 19, 1939 - Document No. 4935 July 28, 1939
Box 15: Document No. 4936 July 28, 1939 - Document No. 5157 September 26, 1939
Box 16: Document No. 5158 September 26, 1939 - Document No. 5451A-O February 20, 1940 through June 28, 1940
47 130 58 26 1
Box 17: Document No. 5459A - Document No. 5605A-B June 29, 1940 and September 20, 1940
Box 18: Document No. 5606A-B June 29, 1940 and September 20, 1940 - Document No. 5768
Box 19: Document No. 5770A - Document No. 5819
47 130 58 26 2
Box 21: Carton Contents:
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 6/48-12/48
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 1/48-5/48
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 7/47-12/47
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 7/43-12/43
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 1/43-6/43

Box 22: Carton Contents:
Board Minutes and Agenda, June 1940
Board Minutes and Agenda, May 1-June 1941
Board Minutes and Agenda, October-November 1941
Board Minutes and Agenda, September 19, 1941-November 28, 1941
47 130 58 26 3
Box 23: Carton Contents:
Board Minutes, July 1941
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 4/42-8/42
Board Minutes and Agenda, January-February 1941
Board Minutes and Agenda, August 1, 1941-September 16, 1941

Box 24: Carton Contents:
Board Agenda and Minutes, December 2, 1941-December 31, 1941
Board Agenda and Minutes, March and April 1940
Board Agenda and Minutes, May/July 1940
Board Agenda and Minutes, January/February 1940

Box 25: Carton Contents:
Board Minutes and Agenda, October 1940
Board Minutes and Agenda, August and September 1940
Board Minutes and Agenda, December 1940
47 130 58 26 4
Box 26: Carton Contents:
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 9/49-7/50
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 1/49-8/49
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 6/51-8/51
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 3/51-5/51
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 8/50-2/51

Box 27: Carton Contents:
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 4/54-12/54
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 10/52-4/53
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 11/53-3/54

Box 28: Carton Contents:
Commissioner's Action Minutes, May 1953-October 1953
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 9/51-12/51
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 6/52-9/52
Commissioner's Action Minutes, 1/52-5/52
47 130 58 26 5
Box 29: Carton Contents:
Board Agenda and Minutes, May 1939, Mitchell's Copes
Board Agenda and Minutes, 4/38-4/39, Mitchell's Copies
Two unlabeled miscellaneous notebooks

Box 30: Carton Contents:
Agenda and Minutes of Board Meetings, October/November 1939, Mitchell's Copies
Agenda and Minutes of Board Meetings, December 1939, Mitchell's Copies


Table 66: Office of the Commissioner - Commissioner's Correspondence, 1936-1969 (306 boxes, completely out of order, order as follows: 1-88; 107-108; 130-216; 89-106; 109-129; 217-306)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-A1, Entry 40)

RECORD GROUP

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ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 58 26 5
Box 1:
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Burma, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Libya, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Russia, Ryukyu Islands, Southern Rhodesia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia. A-Z file.
47 130 58 26 6
Box 2: 600-800 Alabama through Illinois
Box 3: 600-800 Indiana through Missouri
Box 4: 600-800 Montana through Ohio
47 130 58 26 7
Box 5: 600-800 Oklahoma through Texas
Box 6: 600-800 Utah through Wyoming
Alphabetical (095) File: General Correspondence, 1951-1959 (Boxes 7-13)
Box 7: 095 - A through B
47 130 58 27 1
Box 8: 095 - C through E
Box 9: 095 - F through H
Box 10: 095 - I through Mid
47 130 58 27 2
Box 11: 095 - Mind through Q
Box 12: 095 - R through S
Box 13: 095 - T through Z
Master File: General Correspondence, 1951-1959 (Boxes 14-101)
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Box 14: 000 Terminology - 011 Admin. Procedures Act
Box 15: 011.1-Child Welfare Sec. - 011.1 Special Legislation
Box 16: 011.1 S.1 - 011.1 HR 7199 1951-1959
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Box 17: 011.1 HR 7200 - 011.1 Senate Resolutions
Box 18: 011.1 Summary of Earnings - 013.2 IRS Rulings
Box 19: 014 Actuarial Advisory Committee - 014 International Affairs
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Box 20: 014 Medical Advisory - 015 A through Z
Box 21: 020 Agency Staff Meetings - 020 Inter-American Folders
Box 22: 020 ICA - 020 ILO UN/SA
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Box 23: 020 International SSA - 020 Presentation of Certificates
Box 24: 020 Problems of Troops Overseas - 020 Recruitment General
Box 25: 020 Reports - 020 United Nations
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Box 26: 020 United Nations - 020 UN ECOSOC-1958
Box 27: 020 Inter. Activities - Social Welfare Activities
Box 28: 020 (1958) - 031.106 Speeches
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Box 29: 031.2 Reorganization - 031.3 GAO Miscellaneous
Box 30: 031.3 International Cooperation Adm. - 032.11 Federal Courts
Box 31: 033.1 Joint Committee Economic Report - 033.2 Ways & Means
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Box 32: 033.2 Ways and Means - 033.3 Expenditures
Box 33: 033.3 Finance - 041.11 (1954-1959)
Box 34: 041.12 (1951-1959) - 042.4 W-Z / 041.12 Press Rel. - 042.4 Speeches
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Box 35: 042.4 General - 043.4 C
Box 36: 043.4 D-Z - 043.4 General
Box 37: 050 - 050.3411 Research Studies-Disab. & Rehab. Services
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Box 38: 050.35 R.R. Act - 056.3 Workmen's Compensation
Box 39: 057 Actuaries - 110 Budget
Box 40: 110 Budget - 121.2 Reimbursement
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Box 41: 121.3 - 130.21 Agent Cashier
Box 42: 131 Internal Audit - 200.13 Office of the Commissioner
Box 43: 200.13 OASI - 201 Hunter, Fay W.
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Box 44: 201 H - 201 Spaulding, J.M.
Box 45: 201 Spitler, C.E. - 202 Siegel, J.
Box 46: 202 Smith - 211 C.S. Tests
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Box 47: 211 C.S. Tests - 230.1 Personnel Actions
Box 48: 231.1 Draft Status - 232.1 President's Award
Box 49: 232.1 Regional Award Board - 232.2 Evaluation
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Box 50: 232.2 Promotion Plan - 242 Appointments
Box 51: 242 Appointments - 246.36 Leaves and Absences
Box 52: 247 Parades - 273.6 Withholding Taxes
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Box 53: 274 Lump Sum - 301 Personnel Chapter C4
Box 54: 301 Personnel Chapter D1 - 301 Procurement
Box 55: 301 PHS - 303 Procedure and Practices
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Box 56: 304 Reg. No. 1 - 310.3 Employee Suggestions
Box 57: 310.3 Employee Suggestions - 314 Progress Reports
Box 58: 314.21.83 Semi-Annual Memos - 314.2 Report to Secretary
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Box 59: 314.2 Report to Secretary - 314.2/26.5 Monthly Bulletins
Box 60: 314.3 Act - 314.3 PR (1956-1959)
Box 61: 314.3 Progress Reports - 314.3/26.4 BOASI Work Plans
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Box 62: 314.3/26.4 BOASI Work Plans - 314.3/26.5 BPA Work Plans
Box 63: 314.3/26.5 BPA Work Plans - 314.4/21.8 Regional Offices
Box 64: 317 (Booklets) - 320.05 Communications
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Box 65: 320.05 Ewing's Committee - 321.011 Materials for Blind
Box 66: 321.013 Transfer of Freeman's Hosp. - 321.8 Chicago-Wisconsin (Payroll)
Box 67: 321.8 Cleveland (Payroll) - 321.8 New York (Payroll)
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Box 68: 321.8 New York (Payroll) - 321.82 Reg. Dir.'s Conference
Box 69: 321.83 Reg. Officers Conf. - 326.1013 Comm.'s Action Minutes
Box 70: 326.1013 Commissioner's Action Minutes - 326.1021 Gen. Staff Meet.
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Box 71: 326.1021 Gen. Staff Meeting - 326.23 Annual Staff Conf.
Box 72: 326.3 Time per Exam. - 326.4 Organization Activities
Box 73: 326.4 Organization Activities - 326.51 BPA Conferences
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Box 74: 326.51 BPA Conferences - 340.61 Waste Paper Disposal
Box 75: 340.62 Assets Held - 344.1 OASI Building
Box 76: 344.2 Service Requests - 344.3 Spare Allocation
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Box 77: 344.31 Identification Cards - 352.2 Household Goods
Box 78: 360 A through E
Box 79: 360 F through N
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Box 80: 360 P through Z
Box 81: 500 Statistics - 601.3 Child Welfare Information
Box 82: 601.3 Child Welfare Info. - 620 Welfare Administrators
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Box 83: 320.1 Meetings - 621.4 Standards and Practices
Box 84: 631 Children's Bureau - Public Assistance
Box 85: 631 Public Assistance - 633.11 Administrative Costs
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Box 86: 634 Grants in Aid - 672.75 Foster Care
Box 87: 673 Guardianship Policies - 705 Trustees' Annual Report
Box 88: 705 Trustees' Annual Report - 721.512 Coord. Of Retirement. Systems
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Master Cross-Reference Files 1951 through 1959 (Boxes 102-107)
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Box 107: 033.21 (A through Z) 1959
Legislative Records from Hawkins' Files 1936-1953 (Boxes 108-216)
Box 108: Bills S. 4756 - H.R. 9221
Box 130: Misc. House Bills-84th Cong.-H.R. 7225 Amendments-84th Congress
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Box 131: SSA Legislative Proposals-1957 - H.R. 7225 Speeches
Box 132: H.R. 7225-Legislation - 84th Congress Resolutions
Box 133: H.J. Resolution 91 - H.R. 7089
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Box 134: Salk Polio Vaccine Bills - S. 2875
Box 135: S. 2985 - Military Coverage
Box 136: Legislative Reporting Procedures - Congressional Material
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Box 137: H.R. Res. 10 Legislation - H.R. 5698 - 85th Congress
Box 138: H.R. 5701 - H.R. 9467
Box 139: H.R. 9512 - S. 933
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Box 140: S. 934 - Draft Bill
Box 141: Draft Amendments - Juvenile Delinquency
Box 142: Legislative Program - Draft Bill
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Box 143: H. Con. Res. 7 - H.R. 4498 - 86th Congress
Box 144: H.R. 4516 - H.R. 9287
Box 145: H.R. 9345 - S. 937
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Box 146: S. 958 - S. 3827
Box 147: Draft Bills - 85th and 86th Congress
Box 148: H.R. 7260 - S. 1050 (Hawkins File) 74th and 75th Congress 1935 through 1938
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Box 149: S. 1506 - S. 1606 (Hawkins File) 74th and 75th Congress 1935 through 1938
Box 150: H.R. 3548 - S. 5 (Hawkins File) 77th Congress 1941-1942 Legislation 1947 through 1949
Box 151: Legislation, Executive Committees, Conferences, Councils (Engles File) 1954 through 1956
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Box 152: Legislation, Executive Committees, Conferences, Councils (Engles File) 1954-1956
Box 153: Field Material, General Staff Meetings (Engles File) 1949 through 1957
Box 154: Field Material, General Staff Meetings (Engles File) 1949 through 1957
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Box 155: Bureaus, Civil Defense & Work Plans 1954-1956 (Engles)
Box 156: Bureaus, Civil Defense & Work Plans 1954-1956 (Engles)
Box 157: Misc. Reports & Work Plans 1954-1956 (Engles File)
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Box 158: Commissioner's Records - Cohen's ISP Material, 1949-50
Box 159: Commissioner's Records - Cohen's ISP Material, 1949-50
Box 160: Correspondence, Inter-American Children's Institute, 1961 - Nutrition Symposium, 1959
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Box 161: Nutrition Symposium, 1958 - AIIPC-Minutes, 1951-58
Box 162: IAC Meetings, 1959 - Technical Cooperation Bd., 1957-58
Box 163: Technical Cooperation Program - Pan American Union 1957 through 1959
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Box 164: PAU - Fellows - Social Welfare in Bolivia, 1954-1960
Box 165: Children of Latin America - Play and Family Welfare, 1954 through 1955
Box 166: Extension of Resources - Misc. Reports, 1954
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Box 167: Photographs - Misc. Reports, 1951 through 1958
Box 168: Bogotá Conference - ISP Interdepartmental Policy, 1947 through 1948
Box 169: ISP Interdepartmental Committee, 1947 through 1949
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Box 170: President's Pt. 4 Program - Misc. Reports, 1946-49
Box 171: Subcommittee on Soc. Welfare - Interdepartmental Committee Correspondence, 1947 through 1948
Box 172: Interdepartmental Committee - Austria UN Fellow, 1948
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Box 173: Agenda & Program of Meetings - Associations, 1954-57
Box 174: Training - Policy (General) Engle's File, 1954-1960
Box 175: General Staff Meetings - Engle File, 1948-1949
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Box 176: Informational Material - Engle's File, 1939-1955
Box 177: Field Material (Corres.) - Engle's File, 1955-1956
Box 178: IRO 6th Session - IRO Unaccompanied Children, 1948-1950
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Box 179: Inter-American Conference Soc. Work - PC IRO, 1947-1953
Box 180: Regional Meetings - G.K. Wyman, 1959 through 1960
Box 181: United Nations Material - 1951 through 1952
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Box 182: United Nations Material - 1952 through 1957
Box 183: Schottland Trip Folders - 1956 through 1958
Box 184: Schottland Trip Folders - 1956 through 1958
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Box 185: Mitchell Office files for Regions - 1944 through 1947
Box 186: Grants to States - 1936 through 1941
Box 187: Grants to States - 1942 through 1945
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Box 188: Grants to States - 1946 through 1951
Box 189: Commissioner Records - Papers ISSA, 1961 Istanbul / Commissioner's Reports - Papers ILO, 1960 Geneva
Box 190: International Reports - 1947 through 1951
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Box 191: Spanish Language Materials
Box 192: ILO Conference Geneva, 1951 - ILO 35th Sess., 1952
Box 193: IACSS - Mexico Mtg., 1945 - Buenos Aires Mtg., 1941
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Box 194: IACSS - Mexico City, 1952 - IACSS, 1953\
Box 195: Mitchell Office Files, 1947
Box 196: Mitchell Speeches and Trips, 1959 through 1960
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Box 197: Mitchell Speeches and Trips, 1960 through 1962
Box 198: Mullinis File - 1952 through 1953
Box 199: Schottland Files - 1957 through 1958
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Box 200: Schottland Files - 1957 through 1958
Box 201: Schottland Speeches - 1957 through 1958
Box 202: Employment Security, 1942-1944
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Box 203: Employment Security, 1939-1941
Box 204: Mitchell Files - 1960 through 1961
Box 205: Mitchell Files - 1960 through 1961
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Box 206: Mitchell Speeches - 1956 through 1959
Box 207: Mitchell Speeches - 1946 through 1956
Box 208: Inter-U.N. Material - 1957 through 1958
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Box 209: Inter-U.N. Material - 1958
Box 210: Fry Report - SSO Semi-Annual Reports, Region I-X, Beasley Material, 1948 through 1952
Box 211: Territorial Off. (Alaska) - Annual Reports - Field Reporting Projects, 1948 through 1951
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Box 212: Plans & Grants - E.S. 6000-6062 - Alabama-Arkansas, 1940 through 1948
Box 213: Plans & Grants - E. S. 6063-6073 - California-Kansas, 1940 through 1948
Box 214: Plans & Grants - E.S. 6074-6085 - Kentucky-Nevada, 1940 through 1948
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Box 215: Plans & Grants - E.S. 6086-6097 - New Hampshire-South Carolina, 1940 through 1948
Box 216: Plans & Grants - E.S. 6098-6110 - South Dakota-Territory of Hawaii, 1940 through 1948
Master File: General Correspondence, 1951-1959 (Boxes 89-101)
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Box 89: 721.512 Coord. Of Ret. Systems - 722.7 Prog. Inq. Replies
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Box 90: 723 Congressional Replies - 750 Benefit Amounts
Box 91: 750 Benefit Amounts - 751.9 Benefit Standards
Box 92: 752 Disaster Reports - 752.38 Childhood Disability
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Box 93: 752.39 Benefit Levies-I.R.S. - 800.011 Civil Def. Alert
Box 94: 800.011 Atomic Radiation - 800.011 Displaced Persons
Box 95: 800.011 Displaced Persons - 847.26 Miscellaneous
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Box 96: DA Advisory Council Part 1 through 3
Box 97: Papers: I-Altmeyer, II-Family Life Study Special
Box 98: Lally's Material - Request for Technical Asst. UN's Report Work Data
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Box 99: BOASI Building
Box 100: Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
Box 101: Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
Master Cross-Reference Files, 1951 through 1959 (Boxes 102-107)
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Box 102: 033.31 (A through Z) 1951-1956
Box 103: 033.31 (A through Z) 1957-1959
Box 104: 033.21 (A through J) 1951-1956
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Box 105: 033.21 (K through Z) 1951-1956
Box 106: 033.21 (A through Z) 1957-1958
Legislative Records from Hawkins' Files, 1936-1953 (Boxes 108-216)
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Box 109: Bills H.R. 9529 - S. 4411, AC 12-14
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Box 110: Bills H.R. 560 - S. 1313, Draft of Bills
Box 111: Bills H.R. 2997 - H.R. 7319
Box 112: Bills H.R. 2997 - H.R. 7319
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Box 113: Bills S. 65 - S. 2061
Box 114: Bills S. 2175 - H.R. 5686
Box 115: Bills H.R. 5890 - S. 2503
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Box 116: