airmail, and other U.S. air routes, prepared by the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce, 1926-36; airway maps of the United States, prepared by the Bureau of Air Commerce, showing scheduled airlines, aeronautical communication stations, and plans for airfield and beacon sites, 1934-38; field notebooks prepared by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, relating to surveys of an alternate airport at Washington, D.C., and of Alvin Field, Colo., 1939-40; plans and profiles, prepared by the Authority, of U.S. airfields, 1939; and a radio facilities planning chart published by the CAA, 1941. Audiovisual records (2,403 items) consist of motion pictures (3 reels) illustrating CAA functions and activities, 1957, and portrait photographs (2,400 items) of CAA War Training Service air cadets, 1942-44. RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION The American Battle Monuments Commission, created by an act of March 4, 1923, erects and maintains memorials at suitable sites (except in national cemeteries) commemorating the services of American Armed Forces since April 6, 1917; designs, constructs, administers, and maintains permanent American military cemeteries located outside the United States and its possessions; maintains at overseas cemeteries rosters of men recorded as missing and of burials; and provides regulations for the erection of American war memorials by other sponsors. In 1939 the Commission issued American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, a revision of A Guide to the American Battlefields in Europe (1927). The Commission also published in 1944 a series of 28 volumes titled Summary of Operations in the World War. There are 79 cubic feet of records dated between 1922 and 1961, with some as early as 1850, in this record group. RECORDS. 1922-61. 56 lin. ft. (in These include correspondence with former division officers of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, relat ing to operations on the Western Front, 1923-30, with a name index; drafts of "Summaries of Operations" and background papers, 1922-31; records relating to the revision of "Summaries of Operations," 1931-39; proofs of division frontline maps compiled for publication with the Summary of Operations in the World War, 1937; correspondence of Secretary of the Commission Maj. Xenophon H. Price, 1926-33; and records relating to the rights of occupation by the U.S. Government of military cemeteries in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico City, 1850-1961. CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1923-44. 2,038 items. Maps (456 items) summarizing the European operations of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, 1923-44; and maps and ground plans (64 items) of U.S. military cemeteries in Europe, 1937-39. Photographs and sketches (1,489 items) of memorials and monuments erected in Europe to honor U.S. Armed Forces that served in World War I, prepared by or submitted to the Commission, 1923-38; and terrain photographs NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES of European battlefields on which 29 ing parts of dedications of American war memorials and chapels in Europe. Sound recordings (21 items) of the dedication ceremony of the Meuse-Argonne War Memorial at Montfaucon, France, 1937. RECORDS OF THE CIVIL (RECORD The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), an independent agency established under Reorganization Plans Nos. III and IV of 1940, functioned under the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended. It succeeded to certain functions of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, established under the act, and its predecessors, the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Air Mail of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The CAB was given responsibility for regulating economic aspects of air carrier operations, promulgating safety standards, investigating accidents, and promoting international air transportation. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 continued the Board, but the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency assumed CAB functions related to safety rulemaking. The Department of Transportation Act of 1966 transferred to the National Transportation Safety Board CAB functions related to civil aircraft accident investigations and safety enforcement. The CAB authorizes domestic air carriers to engage in interstate and foreign transportation and regulates the operations of foreign air carriers in the United States. It has jurisdiction over subsidies paid air carriers and over tariffs, rates, and fares charged for air transportation and for carrying the mail. The Board, which regulates the accounting procedures of air carriers and their financial and business relationships, requires the carriers to file regular financial and operating reports and makes that data AERONAUTICS BOARD available to other Government agencies There are 197 cubic feet of records dated between 1934 and 1962 in this record group. RECORDS. 1934-62. 236 lin. ft. These consist of records of the CAB and its predecessors, including minutes (in WNRC) of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, 1938-40, and the CAB, 194062; transcripts of testimony, reports, and correspondence of the Bureau of Air Commerce, relating to investigation of the Hindenburg disaster, 1937-38; and a case file relating to the investigation of the 1935 aircraft accident in which Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed. Records of the Federal Aviation Commission, a temporary body appointed by the President in 1934 to study aviation conditions and make policy recommendations to the Congress, consist of minutes, transcripts of testimony and related exhibits, and correspondence regarding proposed- legislation, reports on the Commission's work and recommendations, and fiscal and operations records relating to airlines, 1934-35. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Minutes of the Civil Aeronautics Board and its predecessor agency, the Civil Aeronautics Authority (dating from 1938). Restrictions: No one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the Civil Aeronautics Board or its Secretary. Specified by: Civil Aeronautics Board. RECORDS OF THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS (RECORD GROUP 66) The Commission of Fine Arts was established as an independent agency by an act of May 17, 1910. It is composed of "seven well-qualified judges of the fine arts" appointed by the President, who serve 4-year terms or until their successors are appointed. The Commission's duties include advising, at the request of the President or any congressional committee, on all matters of art with which the Federal Government is concerned. Specifically it advises on the location of statues, fountains, and monuments in the District of Columbia; the plans and designs for public structures and parks in the District; the selection of artists and models for statues, fountains, and monuments erected by the United States; and the design and execution of medals, insignia, and coins. In accordance with congressional acts of 1930 and 1950, the Commission advises on the height, color, design, and exterior appearance of private buildings in specified areas of the District and reviews permits for the construction, alteration, reconstruction, or razing of any buildings in "Old Georgetown." Since March 2, 1944, expenditures for the Commission have been administered by the Department of the Interior. Records relating to the location of monuments, statues, and memorials in the District before 1910 are chiefly among records of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds (see RG 42). There are 198 cubic feet of records dated between 1901 and 1960 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE COMMISSION. 1910-52. 183 lin. ft. Included are reports, memorandums, and other records relating to the Commission's financial obligations, art projects, and other activities; correspondence concerning Commission meetings, 1910-40; general correspondence of the Commission, 1910-42; correspondence of the Secretary, 1910-21 and 1928-40, and the Executive Officer, 1910-40, with members of the Commission, and relating to general administration, 1920-22 and 1927-40; project files consisting of correspondence, drawings, plans, sketches, and other records, 1910-52; and case files consisting of brief formal statements and related sketches or blueprints made under the Shipstead-Luce Act, 1930-52. The completed project files contain information on hundreds of projects, such as the Argonne Cemetery, an Arkansas Centennial Coin, the Arlington Memorial Bridge, the Lincoln Memorial, the House Office Annex, Union Station Plaza, and the Ferdinand de Lesseps Monument. A list of these projects has been compiled and is available as an appendix to Preliminary Inventory 79. CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1901-60. 10,139 items. There are two maps of Washington, D.C., showing the development of the central area west of the Capitol, 1941, and land improvements, 1920-28. Audiovisual records, 1901-60 (10,137 items), include photographs of plans and completed projects of the Commission; photographs of landscaping, art, architecture, and sculpture in the United States and in foreign capitals; and aerial photographs of Washington, D.C. There are photographs of drawings and paint ings of memorials; American flag displays; Army insignia; designs for medals and coins; personalities; colonial America; early Washington, D.C., including St. John's Church and the White House in 1816, the White House greenhouses, and city plans; and the World's Columbian Exposition, 1776-1950. There are also architects' sketches of the Pentagon and the Chicago Century of Progress Building, and panoramas of the Panama Canal construction, ca. 1915. See Richard S. Maxwell, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Commission of Fine Arts, PI 79 (1955). RECORDS OF THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES The Export-Import Bank of the United States originated as the ExportImport Bank of Washington, which was organized as a District of Columbia banking corporation in accordance with Executive Order 6581 of February 2, 1934. Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939 grouped the Bank with other agencies to form the Federal Loan Agency. The Bank was transferred to the Department of Commerce on February 24, 1942; the Office of Economic Warfare on July 15, 1943; and the Foreign Economic Administration on September 25, 1943. It was made an independent agency by the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, which was amended in 1947 to reincorporate the Bank under Federal charter. By an act of March 13, 1968, its name was changed to the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the capital stock of which is held by the U.S. Government. The purpose of the Bank is to help finance and facilitate exports and imports between the United States and foreign countries or their agencies or is nationals. One of its major programs to finance exports for developmental projects and programs. The Bank supplements private capital by making loans and by extending other credits that private lending institutions cannot grant without Government assistance. There are 5 cubic feet of records dated between 1934 and 1951 in this record group. RECORDS. 1934-51. 6 lin. ft. Case files relating to credit granted to foreign nations and domestic or foreign private firms to aid the foreign trade of the United States, containing applications for credit, synopses of actions taken, agreements, memorandums and other supporting records, and related correspondence. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Case files relating to credit granted to foreign nations and domes |