1903 to investigate and report on the operations of interstate corporations except common carriers. When separate Departments of Commerce and Labor were established in 1913, the Bureau remained in the Department of Com merce. By an act of September 26, 1914, the FTC was made into an independent agency. The functions of the FTC have been enlarged by a series of acts beginning with the Clayton Act of October 15, 1914. By these acts the FTC is authorized to prevent unfair methods of competition and undue restraint of trade in interstate commerce; compile data concerning U.S. economic and business conditions as a basis for remedial legislation and for the public's protection; prohibit false advertising of food, drugs, curative devices, and cosmetics to safeguard life and health; and promote the adoption of trade-practice rules to elevate business ethics. There are 5,324 cubic feet of records dated between 1903 and 1959 in this record group. scripts, speeches, and legislation relating to the powers, duties, organization, procedures, investigations (including letters to and from complainants and documents containing trade secrets or information supplied in confidence), conferences, and fiscal matters, 1914-21. Also records relating to administration of the program for licensing patents, trademarks, and copyrights owned during World War I by nationals of the Central Powers, 1916-24; press releases, 1914-59; and press clippings, ca. 1918-44. Records of the Economic Division (4,789 lin. ft. in WNRC) relate to FTC economic investigations and consist of procedural rules and instructions, transcripts of hearings, progress resumes, agents' reports, correspondence, statements of persons interviewed, lists of firms investigated, schedules submitted by those firms about their organizations and operations, statistical data, drafts of final reports, and working papers and reference material, 1915-38. Foreign trade complaint files (in WNRC) of the Export Trade Section relate to complaints about business practices of American exporters and importers, 1921-29. Records of the Docket Section include "formal" docketed case files (in WNRC) of complaints of unfair methods of competition competition or undue restraint of trade, 1916-52, and auxiliary case files (in WNRC), 1915-36, documenting the investigations; docketed, 1915-26, and undocketed, 1916-36, applications (in WNRC) for issuing complaints; and a classified general file, with an index, containing minutes, correspondence, memorandums, reports, questionnaires, and transcripts relating to administrative procedures and investigatory activities, 1918-41. Records of the Special Board of Investigation, created in 1929 to examine charges of false and misleading advertising, consist of radio program scripts containing advertisements passed upon by the Board, 1936-38. CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. 1923-36. 293 items. Included are maps relating to utility companies, prepared by the Mail and Files Section, Administrative Division, 1923-34, and by the Chief Counsel, 193136; and diagrams, graphs, and maps prepared by the Economic Division, relating to public utilities, farm products, petroleum production, and manufacturers of farm machinery, 1928-36. See Estelle Rebec, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Federal Trade Commission, PI 7 (1948). Microfilm Publication: Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Petroleum Industry, Part III, Foreign Trade, April 1909, T154, 1 roll. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: All records except the files of the Bureau of Corporations, Department of Commerce, 1903-14, that were transferred to the FTC; portions of the numerical file (Nos. 8000-9989) of the FTC, 1914-21, that do not comprise correspondence with complainants or documents containing trade secrets or information given in confidence; the formal dockets; records relating to radio program scripts containing advertisements passed upon by the Special Board of Investigation, 1936-38; press releases, 1914-59; and press clippings, ca. 1918-44. Restrictions: Except for the material listed above, no one may examine FTC records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the FTC. Specified by: Federal Trade Commis sion. GENERAL RECORDS OF THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (RECORD GROUP 269) The General Services Administration (GSA) was established as an independent agency by the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of June 30, 1949. The act consolidated and transferred to the GSA certain real and personal property and related functions formerly assigned to various agencies. Its purpose is to provide an economical and efficient system for managing Government property and records, including such services as constructing and operating buildings, procuring and distributing supplies, disposing of surplus property, managing traffic and communications, stockpiling strategic and critical materials, and managing, preserving, and disposing of records. Records of the component services that constitute the GSA have been allocated to separate record groups. There are 61 cubic feet of records dated between 1953 and 1967 in this record group. RECORDS. 1953-67. 73 lin. ft. These consist chiefly of inventory listings of Federal real estate leased or owned by civilian or defense agencies in the United States, U.S. territories, and other countries, giving for each property listed the agency of custody, the location, an area description, the date of acquisition or lease, the number and size of buildings on the property, the acreage, and the cost. RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE (GSA) (RECORD GROUP 121) The Public Buildings Service designs, constructs, manages, maintains, and protects most federally owned and leased buildings. It is also responsible for the acquisition, utilization, and custody of General Services Administration (GSA) real and related personal property. Federal building outside the District of Columbia was performed by Federal agencies and, to some extent, by special commissions and officers appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury until 1853, when a Construction Branch was created in the Department of the Treasury. The Branch later became the Bureau of Construction in the Office of the Supervising Architect, and that Office, in turn, was transferred in 1933 to the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division. The Public Buildings Administration was created in the Federal Works Agency in 1939 by consolidating the Public Buildings Branch and the National Park Service's Branch of Buildings Management. The latter Branch had inherited responsibilities for Federal construction in the District of Columbia from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital (see RG 42). An act of June 30, 1949, abolished the Public Buildings Administration and transferred its functions to the GSA. The Public Buildings Service was established December 11, 1949, by the Administrator of General Services to supersede the Public Buildings Administration. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1843-1945. 11,988 lin. ft. Included are letters sent by the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning customhouses and other buildings, 1851-63; letters sent, 1852-1930 (with gaps), and registers of letters sent, 1852-1901, chiefly by the Supervising Architect; letters sent, chiefly by the Supervising Architect, 1888-1912 (in WNRC); letters and telegrams sent by the Technical Division, Office of the Supervising Architect, 1897-1908; letters sent and received by the construction superintendent, concerning the erection of the Washington, D.C., Post Office, 1891-99; letters sent concerning the construction of the Treasury Extension Building, 1855-63, a hygienic laboratory at Washington, D.C., 1902-3 and 1908-9, and other buildings; letters received, chiefly by the Supervising Architect, 1843-1910 (in WNRC); general correspondence and related records, 1910-39 (in WNRC); correspondence and related records concerning operation and maintenance of Federal buildings outside the District of Columbia, 1933-45; and general correspondence of the Administrative Office, Section of Space Control, Procurement Division, 1935-39. DRAWINGS, PLANS, AND These records, which relate primarily to public buildings throughout the United States that have been sold, traded, or demolished, consist of original drawings, tracings, and prints of sites and interior and exterior plans, 18401943; construction drawings of U.S. Government buildings at expositions, 18911940; architectural sketches and drawings principally of front elevation and RECORDS CONCERNING LAND Land acquired by the United States for debts was often redeemed by the owner or his heirs, or relief was given by congressional acts. During 1936 and 1937 some effort was made by the Procurement Division to clear up disputed titles and dispose of those lands. The Solicitor of the Treasury's records concerning land the Government acquired in payment for debts, chiefly for defaults in payment to the Government, consist primarily of warranty deeds to land acquired, 1801-78, and conveyed, 18301927; a register of lands, 1830-59; letters sent by the Solicitor about lands, 184245; letters and memorandums sent by the Section of Space Control about disposing of Government land, 1936-37; closed land disposal case files, 18851939; and case files of lawsuits brought by the United States to acquire land in payment for debts, 1821-1911. Records concerning Government purchase and sale of land at Harpers Ferry consist principally of correspondence, 1845-87, warranty deeds to land conveyed, 18521902, and records about abatement cases, 1878-88. Records relating to a Federal real estate inventory consist of correspondence and related material of the Section of Space Control, Procurement Division, about conducting the inventory, and a departmental and agency file consisting largely of correspondence, memorandums, minutes, and special reports on parcels of real estate that Federal departments and agencies owned, 193638; and questionnaires sent by the Section to determine names, dates acquired, areas, locations, and costs of Federal properties, 1929-39. Other records relating to land include correspondence and related material about land in the District of Columbia, 1930-39; title papers and site registers, including warranty deeds, abstracts and certificates of title, site proposals, and related title papers, 1838-1968 (in WNRC); and miscellaneous documents. concerning sites ("Site Registers"), ca. 1845-1903. MISCELLANEOUS AND FISCAL RECORDS. 1816-1940. 14 lin. ft. These consist primarily of registers of bonds to contractors, 1889-97, and to construction superintendents, 1889-94; construction contracts, 1854-60; a contract docket, 1882-92; an inspection file of construction and inspection engineers, 1935-40; appropriation account ledgers and daybooks, 1816-1906; a ledger about constructing, altering, and repairing hospital facilities, 1921-22; accounting ledgers and journals about constructing the Treasury Extension Building, 1855-71; an Office of the Supervising Architect appointment book, 1900-1902; property record for furniture and fixtures in public buildings, 1896-1906; James Stewart and Co.'s claims file, 1937; and an office file of the Procurement Division technical officer, concerning construction and administration, 1923-35. RECORDS CONCERNING FEDERAL ART ACTIVITIES. 1933-43. 95 lin. ft. The public works of art project was established late in 1933 to furnish work decorating non-Federal public buildings and parks for unemployed artists. The records of the project, which ceased functioning at the end of fiscal year 1934, consist primarily of the central file of the Advisory Committee to the Treasury on Fine Arts; final reports, 193336; central office correspondence, including that with artists, and related records; a file of publicity material and newspaper clippings; a card list of completed artworks received by the Washington office from project artists; correspondence of the Business Director, selected regional office records, and Region 2 correspondence with artists, 1933-34; correspondence of the Assistant Technical Director, 1934-35; and card lists of paintings and sculptures executed under the project and allocated to Government agencies, Congressmen, public buildings, art galleries, and other institutions, with fragmentary related correspondence, 1934. Records of the Treasury relief art project, established on July 21, 1935, to employ competent, unemployed artists in decorating both new and old Federal buildings, consist primarily of the chief's general administrative and reference file, 1935-37; central office correspondence with field offices, State supervisors, and others, 1935-39; and correspondence of the New York City supervisor with the Washington office, 1935-38. Records of a unit successively known as the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts, and the Public Buildings Administration Section of Fine Arts (1934-43), which cooperated with other offices of the Treasury Department and subsequently of the Public Buildings Administration in providing newly constructed Federal buildings with murals and sculpture, consist principally of correspondence of section heads and case files, 1934-43; correspondence with artists ("Artists' Let ters"), 1939-42; annual and miscellaneous reports, letters received, and other records concerning completed murals and sculpture and their artists, 1935-42; bulletins of the Section of Painting and Sculpture, 1935-41; biographical data on artists, 1938; records concerning exhibitions, 1939-42, the decoration of New York World's Fair buildings, 1937-41, National Art Week, 1940-41, and national defense and war art projects, 194142; and correspondence with and about artists in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, 1934-37. RECORDS CONCERNING These comprise claims of public building contractors who incurred losses under prewar contracts due to World War I price and priority conditions, including war claims case files that consist of reports, correspondence, subcontracts, and other records; a summary card file on claims; and a reference file on claims, including correspondence and memorandums. RECORDS OF COLLABORATING BOARDS AND COMMITTEES. 1921-41. 29 lin. ft. These consist of records of the Board of Consultants on Hospitalization, established in 1921 to advise the Secretary of the Treasury on locating and expanding hospital facilities for World War I veterans, including correspondence that consists largely of reference material and statistical data accumulated during surveys and studies, 1921-23, correspondence concerning prospective purchases and donations of land and buildrecords ings, 1921-22, and about proposed sites and buildings, 1921-27; and the Advisory Committee for the National Archives Building, appointed in 1930 to advise and assist the Supervising Architect in determining the size and |