Highlights from our Textual Holdings at the National Archives at College Park

The Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park holds permanent historical records from federal agencies and donated collections dating back to the 1600s. Some of the most frequently requested records include logbooks from U.S. Navy ships and stations, records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, operations reports from World War I, and captured records from World War II.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington

Letters Received, April 7, 1793

Letter from President of the Union Pacific Railroad to Abraham Lincoln

Railroad Package #239, November 3, 1864

Wright Brothers Patent for the Flying Machine

Patent Case File No. 821,393, May 22, 1906

Letter from Ida B. Wells-Barnett to President Woodrow Wilson

Records of the 92nd Division, File 322.9, April 26, 1918

George Washington Carver Patent for Cosmetics

Patent Case File No. 1,522,176, August 9, 1923

OSS Oath of Office for Julia Child

OSS Personnel File of Julia McWilliams, November 18, 1942

Japanese Instrument of Surrender

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, September 2, 1945

 

Letter from Justices of the Supreme Court to President George Washington

Letters Received, August 8, 1793

Consular Appointment of Ebenezer Bassett

Despatches from Diplomatic Officers, Haiti, April 26, 1869

Zimmerman Telegram

Central Decimal File 862.2012/82A, January 17, 1917

Program from the 1920 Woman Suffrage Convention

Correspondence of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, February 12, 1920

Last Communications of Amerlia Earhart

Papers of Leo G. Bellarts, July 1-2, 1937

Letter from Albert Einstein

Atomic Energy, Central Subject Files, November 29, 1947