Welcome, 2021! Are you ready to dive into historical research this year? With more than 130 million digitized pages of records available in the National Archives Catalog, there is always something new to discover and explore.
This series consists of cases relating to admiralty claims. Each case file may contain libels and amendments to libels; information; monitions; answers; counterclaims and cross-claims; interrogatories; depositions and transcripts of oral testimony of witnesses and other records filed in the district court in admiralty actions.
The series consists of compilations of records submitted by guerrilla units to the Recovered Personnel Detachment (RPD) to secure official recognition of wartime service and thereby claim compensation and benefits. The records include data for a variety of resistance organizations, the bulk of which retained USAFFE or U.S. Forces in the Philippines (USFIP) designations as semi-regular units.
This series consists of forms provided to the Immigration and Naturalization Service by shipmasters about their crews. Typical information includes: name of the ship and shipmaster, ports of arrival and embarkation, dates of arrival (and occasionally of departure), full name of each crew member, position, length of service at sea, citizenship (nationality), literacy, age, sex, height and weight, any physically distinguishing marks, passport number, type of visa, the date and place of employment, and whether the crew member was to be discharged or paid off at the port of arrival.
Photographs taken by John K. Hillers during the Powell Survey and other Geological Surveys, ca. 1879 - ca. 1900 National Archives Identifier 517734
Photographs of geological formations and the topography of Arizona, Utah and Wyoming in the vicinity of the Colorado River and its tributaries that were taken during the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region led by John Wesley Powell, 1871-78; also photographs of survey members, surveying equipment, American Indians, and Indian ruins; photographs by Hillers and others of earthquake damage in Charleston, SC, in 1886; and of geological formations in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, Florida, California, and the Chesapeake Bay area, 1886-1900.
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