Historical Records Survey

The Historical Records Survey (HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States.Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives.The official mission statement was the "discovery, preservation, and listing of basic materials for research in the history of the United States".However, because of the program's short lifespan, many of the indexes were not published and remain in only piecemeal form in local and state record repositories.It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its people so to learn from the past that they can gain in Judgment for the creation of the future.According to regional historian Clifton Dale Foster, "In most states, several diverse projects were operating simultaneously.
South Dakota Historical Records Survey publication (1942)
Publications from Missouri, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and New Jersey
HRS microfilming New Jersey public records (1937)
"WPA worker typing old historical records" in Kentucky
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