563 RECORDS OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION The Securities and Exchange Commission was established by the Securities Exchange Act of June 6, 1934. It administered the Securities Act of 1933 and later became responsible for administering the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, all of which were intended to protect public and investor interests against malpractices in the securities and financial markets. The Commission investigates complaints or other evidence of securities violations and takes appropriate administrative action or refers the facts to the Attorney General, enforces sanctions against companies and persons guilty of such violations as securities frauds and manipulations, receives and holds open for public inspection registration statements on all securities publicly offered for sale in interstate commerce or through the mails and annual reports from all companies whose securities are listed on national exchanges, makes special studies in the investment field, renders advisory services to courts in reorganization proceedings for bankrupt corporations, and participates in formulating and executing foreign economic and financial programs of the Government. There are 836 cubic feet of records (in WNRC) dated between 1933 and 1943 in this record group. RECORDS. 1933-43. 1,050 lin. ft. Registration dossiers, with an index to names of registrants, concerning administration of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Documents include registration statements and amendments; reports of offering price; prospectuses; orders, findings, and opinions issued by the Commission; transcripts of hearings; papers filed under Commission rules; periodic financial reports; and correspondence. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Records relating to the administration of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, consisting of correspondence files and records relating to private hearings that bear the tertiary file numbers -3 (correspondence) and -5 (investigations), respectively. Restrictions: No one may examine these Specified by: Securities and Exchange RECORDS OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM, 1940 (RECORD GROUP 147) The Selective Service System was established by an Executive order of September 23, 1940, under the Selective Training and Service Act of September 16, 1940, to provide an orderly, just, and democratic method of obtaining men for military and naval service. The System operated through a Director and national headquarters, regional offices, State headquarters, medical advisory boards, registrant advisory boards, boards of appeal, and local boards. Through the local boards the System registered, classified, and selected for induction male citizens and aliens subject to service. Except between December 5, 1942, and December 5, 1943, when it was under the jurisdiction of the War Manpower Commission, the System was responsible to the President. On March 31, 1947, when legislation authorizing selective service expired, the Office of Selective Service Records was established to liquidate the System and preserve and provide service on its records. The Selective Service System was reconstituted by an act of June 24, 1948, and remains in operation. There are 1,417 cubic feet of records (in WNRC) dated between 1940 and 1948, with a few dated as late as 1953, in this record group. RECORDS. 1940-48. 1,785 lin. ft. and 805 rolls of microfilm. Most of the records are of the national headquarters. They include central files of the Selective Service System, 194047, and of the Office of Selective Service Records, 1947-48; records concerning personnel and men released from active duty; records, chiefly microfilm copies (11 rolls), of the three national lotteries held in 1940, 1941, and 1942 to determine registrant classification order; case files and other records concerning conscientious objectors (including 297 rolls of microfilm); and case files and related records, chiefly microfilm copies (246 rolls), of appeals to the President. There are also directives and other issuances (including 2 rolls of microfilm) of national and State headquarters, narrative and statistical reports, studies, lists of certain deferred and exempted persons, sample forms, and newspaper clippings. The only field office records are microfilm copies (249 rolls) of records concerning registrants of two local boards in the District of Columbia, samples of minute books of local and appeal boards, and bulletins and circulars of the Massachusetts State Headquarters. See Richard G. Wood, comp., Preliminary SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Restrictions: No one except appro priate personnel of the Selective Specified by: Director of Selective II. Records: Records pertaining to all All records, or information from them, pertaining to a registrant will be furnished to him or to an agent having the registrant's writ ten authorization. All records or information from them necessary for the performance of official duties will be furnished employees and officials of the Selective Service System and other officials of the Federal Government, State governments, and quasi-governmental organizations, such as the American Red Cross. All records may be made available for bona fide research that does not involve the use of individual names in connection with the classes of information described as restricted. Specified by: Director of Selective Service. RECORDS OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (RECORD GROUP 309) in The Small Business Administration (SBA), an independent agency, was established by the Small Business Act of July 30, 1953. Under provisions of that act and Executive Order 10504 of December 1, 1953, the powers and responsibilities of the terminated Small Defense Plants Administration, including liquidation activities and the administration of its prime contracts, were transferred to the SBA. SBA functions were expanded by the Small Business Investment Act of August 21, 1958, and the Secretary of Commerce, accordance with the Area Redevelopment Act of May 1, 1961, delegated to the SBA some responsibilities and functions for the area redevelopment program. The purposes of the SBA are to counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small businesses; ensure that a fair proportion of Government purchases and contracts are placed with small businesses; make loans to small businesses and investment companies, victims of floods or other catastrophes, and State and local development companies; license and regulate small business investment companies; and assist small business owners in improving manageri al skills. Defense Plants Administration, 1951-53, consisting of correspondence relating to organization and management, appropriations, prime contracts and contract procurements, loans and other fiscal operations, production and management assistance, and personnel; sample case files relating to tax amortization, materials and equipment, contract procurement, certificates of competency, loans, and joint determination; and records of Director of Contract Procurement Charles H. Swisher, relating primarily to the ammunition program. Also included are records of the SBA, consisting of sample case files relating to applications for business loans that were declined, canceled, or withdrawn, 195455. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Small Defense Plants Administration and Small Business Administration sample case files relating to applications for loans. Restrictions: No one other than employees of the Federal Government on official business may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of an authorized official of the SBA. Specified by: Administrator of the Small Business Administration. RECORDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The Smithsonian Institution was created by an act of August 10, 1846, under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, as an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Institution performs fundamental research; publishes the results of studies, explorations, and investigations; preserves for study and reference millions of scientific, cultural, and historical items; maintains exhibits of the arts, American history, aeronautics and space exploration, technology, and natural history; participates in the international exchange of learned publications; and engages in national and international cooperative research and training programs. The Institution is governed by a Board of Regents, consisting of the Vice President, the Chief Justice, three members each from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and six other American citizens appointed by joint resolution of Congress. The Secretary of the Institution. is its executive officer and director of activities. Under general or immediate direction of the Institution are the U.S. National Museum, consisting of the Museum of Natural History (including the former Bureau of American Ethnology) and Museum of History and Technology; Astrophysical Laboratory; Radiation Biology Laboratory; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; National Zoological Park; National Air and Space Museum; National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board; National Collection of Fine Arts; Freer Gallery of Art; National Portrait Gallery; Jospeh H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; National Gallery of Art; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; International Exchange Service; and Science Information Exchange. Records of the Meteorological Division of the Institution, 1845-73, including some material relating to other than meteorological activities, are among records of the Weather Bureau (see RG 27). Records relating to the Institution's early interest in developing fisheries are among records of the Fish and Wildlife Service (see RG 22). See Webster P. True, The First Hundred Years of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1946 (1946). There are 72 cubic feet of records dated between 1871 and 1952 in this record group. RECORDS. 1891-1952. 7 lin. ft. These consist of personnel files, 18921952, and correspondence of Hugh McCormick Smith, U.S. Fish Commission staff member, 1891-1903, and U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries, 1903-22. CARTOGRAPHIC AND Cartographic records (7 items) include isothermal maps showing mean temperatures in the United States for 1874; maps relating to the Cherokee Indian Nation in 1884; a map of the floral areas of Washington in 1906; a map prepared by J. W. Powell for the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, showing the distribution of the American Indian linguistic stock in North America and Greenland; and a map of South America, showing the distribution of Indian tribal and linguistic groups in 1950. Still pictures, 1871-1918 (3,650 items), consist of photographs of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1871-1907, including American Indian chiefs and villages; Indians, Mormons, the petrified forest, and ranch life in the Arizona Territory; delegations to Washington, D.C.; western Indians and geological formations, made by the Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, 187174; watercolor sketches of Indian pueblos and cave dwellings, by Matilda Cope Stevenson, 1882; fish and other marine life; foreign customs and cultures, and historic places in the British Isles, Europe, and the Pacific Islands; the River Clyde, Scotland, and rural Philadelphia, ca. 1900; the Canal Zone and construction of the Panama Canal; and World War I battle scenes taken in Belgium and France. Motion pictures (49 reels) consist of films from the Bureau of American Eth nology, illustrating the preparation of an anthropological exhibit at the Smithsonian; archaeological explorations and diggings in New Mexico, Arizona, Tennessee, Colorado, Yucatan, and Honduras, 1931-41; the making of an intertribal sign language dictionary of the American Indians of the Great Plains, and the theory, history, and practice of the sign language, ca. 1930-31. Films of the Washington zoo; National Gallery of Art films on the history of the planning and development of Washington, D.C., 1929 and 1949; and National Museum films on the history of flight, 1903-27, important events in the life of Charles A. Lindbergh, and a glider exhibition and contest. Sound recordings (422 items) from the Bureau of American Ethnology of songs and linguistic material in Indian languages, including Aleut, Mission, Chumash, and Creek, with some translations, 1912, 1914, and 1930-41; and recordings of the radio series "The World is Yours," broadcast for the Smithsonian Institution by the U.S. Office of Education, 1936-41. RECORDS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (RECORD GROUP 142) The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a corporation created by an act of May 18, 1933, to conduct a unified program of resource conservation, development, and use; speed the economic development of the Tennessee Valley region; and advance its national defense capabilities. All functions of the Authority are vested in its three-member Board of Directors, appointed by the President and reporting directly to him. The General Manager, TVA's principal administrative officer, reports to the Board of Directors. TVA operates the Tennessee River control system, investigates the need for and feasibility of additional river control projects, assists State and local governments in reducing local flood problems, and, with cooperating agencies, encourages use of navigable waterways. At a national laboratory at Muscle Shoals, Ala., TVA develops new and improved fertilizers. With other agencies it conducts research and development programs in forestry, fish and game conser vation, watershed protection, health services, and economic development of the Tennessee Valley tributary areas. There are 10 cubic feet of cartographic and audiovisual records dated between 1933 and 1956 in this record group. No textual records have been accessioned. CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1933-56. 3,754 items. Maps of the Southeastern United States and of the Tennessee Valley, including general, planimetric, and specialized maps showing hydrography, climatic patterns, minerals, forests, crops, landownership, flood control projects, transportation and communication systems, and various types of demographic and social data. Photographs (2,000 items) of the Tennessee Valley and vicinity, showing soil erosion, taverns, mills, homes, barns, bridges, waterfalls, national and State parks, roads and trails, and dams. |