Scope and Content Note
The series consists of statements of administrative policies and procedures of the local records program, and considerable background material on the history of archival records programs in the state.
Records include information on the Local Government Records Advisory Council of the early 1950s, proposals for the establishment of the state archives, a report on the Office of the State Historian, comments on the Wicks Commission Records Management Bill of 1948, circular letters to local officials, and other records (including speeches by local government records staff).
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