Federal Grants for Collection of Documentary Source Material Significant to U.S. HistoryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 128 pages |
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Page 118 - ... is given or used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit.
Page 11 - Register is a component of the National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration.
Page 128 - Society will sponsor meetings at which various aspects of technological history will be investigated and will publish a quarterly journal, Technology and Culture, devoted to the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture.
Page 66 - Commission shall make plans, estimates, and recommendations for such historical works and collections of sources as it deems appropriate for printing or otherwise recording at the public expense. The Commission shall also cooperate with and encourage appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and nongovernmental institutions, societies, and individuals in collecting and preserving and, when it deems such action to be desirable, in editing and publishing the papers of outstanding citizens of the...
Page 19 - To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.
Page 30 - Services may, within the limits of available appropriated and donated funds, make allocations to Federal agencies, and grants to State and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations and institutions, for the collecting, describing, preserving and compiling, and publishing (including microfilming and other forms of reproduction) of documentary sources significant to the history of the United States.
Page 66 - It shall also cooperate with and encourage appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and nongovernmental institutions, societies, and individuals in collecting and preserving and, when it considers it desirable, in editing and publishing the papers of outstanding citizens of the United States, and other documents as may be important for an understanding and appreciation of the history of the United States.
Page 97 - Representative to be appointed, for a term of two years, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Page 20 - I have a statement which I will submit for the record, but I would like to make a few comments and answer any questions that the committee might have.
Page 23 - Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The last cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains ; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.