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HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY STATE ARCHIVES SURVEY
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
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3 USES SLIEBES C SEEI•MONTHLY REPORT FROM THE STATE OFFICE COMPILED FROM
TEE DISTRICT SUPLRVISORIS REPORTS
g§16 Period beginning February l, - ending February 15, l958.
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F€bJ_ In Florida, the Historical Records Survey and the State Archives Survey are
F€bJ5 administered by the same director. The workers on beth surveys use the
Historical Records Survey Forms. The Historical Records Survey, a Federal
Project, has 50 workers on the payroll; the State Archives Survey, a State
Project within Florida has l2O workers on the payroll. The Survey super-
vises the activities of 27 NYA workers. Florida has 67 counties. These
are distributed in 5 WPA zones and ll WPA areas. The Survey maintains one
· district office to every three areas. The State Office has en editorial
staff and typing force. Various files are carried for forms filled out by
the workers on the Surveys; these files will be distributed to University
Libraries within the State. The Surveys distribute a mimeographed semi-
monthly report and a progress report to Washington once a month, Compiled
reports of the Surveys will be deposited in the State Library and the
University Libraries of the State.
ITEWS I TEIJIS : .
. Dr. Luther H. Evans, National Director of the Historical Records Survey,was
a guest speaker at the 56th annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society
in Tampa. Ee stated that the inventory of city, county, and state records
throughout the nation, and church, private, and business archives, as well,
{ would be of untold value to historians of the present and future. He
` ` stated, "a wealth of new and valuable material has been uncovered in out of
the wayplaces; for example, material concerning the Coronada Expedition re-
cently was uncovered in a county courthouse in New Mexico".
A letter received by survey workers from the clerk of the circuit court of
Suwannee County compliments the workers on the rearrangement of records in
his office. He states that old records previously piled in corners are new
as accessible for reference as the current records. He expresses the wish
that other county offices will profit by the work of the survey as much as
the clerk's office has.
i Dr. Douglas C. Mcmurtrie has written for a photostat copy of the Tallahassee
broadside of 1842; he states that this is a very gratifying discovery. The
Survey has deposited this Early American Imprint in the State Library.
Through the activity of the Survey a complete file of the Panama City Pilot
has been promised to the State Library.
Hr. Nathan Mayo, Commissioner of Agriculture, expressed pleasure in receiv-
ing a copy of his father's diary prepared by the Survey. Copies of the
diary have been placed in the University Libraries of the State, The diary
is interesting because it gives information on conditions in one of the
prison camps during the War Between the States.
A report on the inventory of privately owned manuscripts made by the Survey
to date was submitted to the chairman of the manuscript committee of the V