Guide-U.S. Executive Branch Documents

 

Content and Scope

The U.S. Executive Branch Documents lets researchers follow the progress and expansion of the United States as reflected by the increasing functions and concerns of the Federal executive branch.  A myriad of topics are covered in the compilation including documents in such subject areas as economics, military, legal, scientific, social history, and statistical data emanating from all the various agencies covered throughout the collection.  The documents provide a unique documentary record of the on goings of Federal departments and agencies and are divided into two date ranges 1789-1909, and 1910-1932.

 

Indexes

 

CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1789–1909

The CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1789–1909 is based on the Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, which was the only systematic attempt to supply a complete listing of all the documents published by the U.S. Government in its first 120 years.  The set contains almost 200,000 publications of various types such as, annual reports, circulars, instructions, decisions, and bulletins.  Documents that appear within the U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1789-1909 are not duplicated in the United States Serial Set.   

 

The 1789-1909 Index and its companion microfiche is issued in six parts, divided by issuing agency as follows:

Part 1   Treasury Department; Commerce and Labor Department

Part 2   War Department

Part 3   Interior, Justice, and Labor Departments; Interstate Commerce Commission; Library of Congress

Part 4   Agriculture  Department; American Republics Bureau; Civil Service, District of Columbia, and Fish Commissions; Freedman’s Savings & Trust Company; Geographic Board; Government Printing Office; General supply Committee

Part 5   Navy Department

Part 6   State Department; National Academy of Sciences; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; Post Office Department; President of U.S.; Smithsonian Institution

 

CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1910–1932

The CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1910-1932 covers the full spectrum of materials issued by the more than 650 bureaus and offices of Federal executive departments and independent agencies in existence during the period 1910-1932, and holds numerous publications, such as bulletins, circulars, and annuals.  Materials excluded are; the GPO Monthly Catalog, reprints, separates, ephemera and Executive Branch information published in the U.S. Serial Set, U.S. Statutes at Large, and the CIS Index to Presidential Executive Orders and Proclamations.  Due to its large size and availability the Patent Office’s Official Gazette and the Specifications and Drawings, and the Copyright Office’s Catalogue of Copyright Entries have been omitted.  Coast and Geodetic Survey Maps and some other classes of Maps have also been excluded due tremendous volume and difficult use on microfiche. 

 

The 1910-1932 Index and its companion microfiche is issued in seven parts, divided by issuing agency as follows:

Part 1   Treasury Department; Smithsonian Institute; Tariff Commission; Veterans Bureau; Vocational Education Board

Part 2   Commerce Department; Civil Service Commission

Part 3   War department; War Trade Board

Part 4   Interior Department; Justice Department; Labor Department; General Accounting Office; Government Printing Office; Interstate Commerce Commission; and other agencies

Part 5   Agriculture Department; Americans Republics Bureau

Part 6   Navy Department; Library of Congress; Mediation Board; National Academy of Sciences; National Capital Park and Planning Commission; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; and other agencies 

Part 7   Post Office Departments; State Department; Pan American Union; Pan American Sanitary Bureau; Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital; Personnel Classification Board; President of U.S.; Postal Savings System; Reserve Bank Organization Committee; Radio Commission; Railroad Labor Board; Shipping Board

 

Each part of the Index for both year ranges includes the following sections:

Reference Bibliography,-provides a full bibliographic data listing, and subject matter annotations or brief abstracts, describing articles and other items contained within larger works.

Index by Subject and Names,-provides access to documents by names of the authors who prepared them, the agencies that issued them, and the subjects they examine. 

Index by Superintendent of Documents Number,-provides access to each document targeted for inclusion in the collection through SuDoc numbers.

Index by Titles,-provides access to publications through titles.

Index by Agency Report Numbers,-provides access to publications by the numbers assigned by the agency that issued them. 

 

Holdings

 

The CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents is held in the Congressional Area of the Department’s Reference Room under the call number 015.73053 C579.  Its unclassed companion microfiche collection produced by Congressional Information Service, Inc, is held in the microfiche cabinets in the Department’s Map Room.   

 

 

 

Northwestern University

University Library

Governement Publications and Maps Department

Summer 2004