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UNWERSTTY OF KENTUCKY INDRODUCTION  
 
This manual of instructions, prepared especially for field workers  
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engaged in the Survey of Federal Archives in Kentucky, under the super- ped-  
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vision of the Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Pro- sig.?
gress Administration in Kentucky, is based on more than two years of  
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actual experience, as this Survey was begun on March 1, 1956.  
 
In its preparation we have been actuated by the almost single desire  
to simplify the original manual prepared by Dr. Philip M. Hamer, of the  
 
National Archives, Washington, D. C., and National Director of our Survey.  
It also embodies the essential facts of more than 200 memorandums issued  
by Dr. Hamer's editorial staff, during the first sixteen months of the  
survey, when it was a federal project. Since September 1, 1937, our  
 
survey has operated as a state-wide project.  
, This manual is issued at this time especially for the instruction  
of the new workers that have been requisitioned for new units. We hope _ 
to be able to survey every depository of federal archives in these new  
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