Guide to NARA Collection

Social Security Textual Records in NARA II

Detailed Inventory of Social Security Record Collections
Group 9: Miscellaneous Topics

Table 6: Social Security Handbook, Sixth Edition, 1978 / History Files (2 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 4)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 21 1
Box 1: Social Security Handbook, Sixth Edition, 1978 / History Files
Box 2: Social Security Handbook, Sixth Edition, 1978 / History Files

Table 12: Policy Procedure Records (9 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 12)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 26 7
Box 1: May 1-July 1 1974

Box 2: Aug. 1-Oct. 1974
47 130 37 27 1
Box 3: Nov.-Dec. 1974

Box 4: Jan-March 17, 1975

Box 5: March 20-May 14, 1975
47 130 37 27 2
Box 6: May 15-July 14, 1975

Box 7: July 15-Sept. 15, 1975

Box 8: Sept. 16-Nov. 14, 1975
47 130 37 27 3
Box 9: Nov. 17-Dec. 31, 1975

Table 13: 47-89-002 (Materials for project to automate notice-generation, 1987) (11 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD-WW, Entry 13)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 37 27 3
Box 1: NG Contractor Information
Box 2: NG Contractor Information, NG FR User sign offs
47 130 37 27 4
Box 3: NG FR user sign offs
Box 4: Field Interview files
Box 5: Field files, Workload scheduling
47 130 37 27 5
Box 6: GRD, FRD, PB Process Description, Level 2 Questionnaires
Box 7: User/Technical interviews, Tasking minispecs, GRD, Business process description
Box 8: RFP PB LAG, Contractor Orientation, Phase I Requirement Development Plan
47 130 37 27 6
Box 9: Field interview files
Box 10: User/Technical interviews, Requirement development plan, Process description, GRD, Interim FRD's
Box 11: Meeting schedules, Contractor correspondence, RFP documentation

Table 38: Scripts for Radio Broadcasts, 1950-51 (2 boxes)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: MLR-UD, Entry 14)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 58 4 7
Box 1: Federal Security Agency, Regions III-X and Austin, Texas - Cleveland, Ohio

Box 2: Decatur, Illinois - Utica, New York

Table 55: Non-record material relating to group 47 - Finding Aids and Annual Reports (24 boxes)
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RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 130 58 10 6
Box 1: Chairman's Files, 1935-42 / Executive Director's Files, 1935-48. Three binders of finding aids to this collection.
47 130 58 10 7
Box 2: Executive Director's Files, 1941-48. Three binders of finding aids: 1 binder on Executive Director, 2 on Social Security Board.

Box 3: Central Files, 1935-47, Books 1-3, general finding aids.

Box 4: Central Files, 1935-47, Book 4 / Office of Program Research and Statistics (1940-46); Actuarial Record--general finding aids.

Box 5:
Abe Bortz book on Social Security archives, 1969
Senate Hearing Report on Social Security bill, 1935
Folder 1: Staff Manual, Bureau of Employment Security, 8/1/43
Folder 2: 1942 narrative regarding files transmitted to NARA
Folder 3: Social Security Board regulations and Field Office addresses and service areas, 1/41

Box 6:
Folder 1: Text of Arthur J. Altmeyer speech on Employment Security; copy of Regulation No. 1 (on privacy)
Folder 2: Organizational charts for Social Security Board, 1940s
Folder 3: Edwin Witte essay on Unemployment Compensation, 12/35
Folder 4: Copy of Executive Order creating Committee on Economic Security (CES)
Folder 5: Text of radio address by Harry Hopkins on the work of the CES 3/16/35
Folder 6: Copy of Edwin Witte speech on Social Security and the businessman, 4/11/35
Folder 7: Copy of Arthur Altmeyer speech on labor and Social Security, 10/6/37
Folder 8: Social Security Board (SSB) press releases from late 1930s
Folder 9: 1941 Claims Manual
Folder 10: Oct. and Nov. 1946 issues of Social Security Bulletin
Folder 11: Organizational charts for Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (BOASI)
Folder 12: Pages from Field Office Manual, 7/41
Folder 13: SSB memos on various topics, 1939-1943
Folder 14: Training Manual, 1941
Folder 15: Memos regarding Social Security Bulletin, 1939-1943

Box 7:
Folder 1: Public Assistance Functions of SSB
Folder 2: SSB, Employment Security Bureau
Folder 3: 1942 report on BOASI records (aka, the Beers Study)
Folder 4: BOASI, preparation of forms, 1942
Folder 5: BOASI, Control Division, 1942
Folder 6: BOASI, processing wage items, 1/14/42
Folder 7: BOASI, procedures, 8/30/41
Folder 8: Procedures for check cancellation, 7/18/41
Folder 9: BOASI, procedures for change of address, 3/31/41
Folder 10: BOASI, procedures for card maintenance, 10/25/40
Folder 11: BOASI, procedures for telephone service, 9/4/43
Folder 12: BOASI, procedures for accounting control, 9/27/40
Folder 13: BOASI, procedures for card file, 2/20/42
Folder 14: BOASI, procedures for wage items, 2/7/42
Folder 15: BOASI, procedures for termination of benefits, 6/19/46
Folder 16: BOASI, procedures for claims procedures, 3/2/40
Folder 17: BOASI, procedures for account number manual, 2/1/38
Folder 18: BOASI, procedures for claims file manual, 6/5/40
Folder 19: BOASI, procedures for field adjudication manual, 4/1/42

Box 8:
Folder 1: BOASI, procedures for transcription unit, 1/7/41
Folder 2: BOASI, procedures for recovery actions, 3/30/42
Folder 3: BOASI Wage Record Manual, 10/31/39
Folder 4: BOASI, procedures for balancing unit, 1/2/41
Folder 5: BOASI, procedures for regional and field letter instructions, 3/7/42.
Loose materials:
Early SSB informational pamphlets and booklets
Workers Compensation in Pennsylvania Statistical Tables, 1934
Bureau Research and Statistics Report No. 1 on Public Assistance, 1938
Appendices to CES Report, 1/29-2/7/35
Folder 6: BOASI Resume of Operations, 1/40
Folder 7: BOASI adjustment unit, 1/15/40
Folder 8: Manual for Federal Credit Union Managers, 12/10/35
Folder 9: Field Office Time Study, 1940
Folder 10: Instructions for Field Office Time Study, 11/41
Folder 11: Field Office Time Study (cont.)
Folder 12: SSB, Personnel Division, type of appointment, 3/4/44
Folder 13: SSB, emergency purchases, 11/20/43
Folder 14: Distribution of standard forms, 1/41
Folder 15: Weekly parallel office reports, instructions
Folder 16: Report on Field Office post-adjudication
Folder 17: Semi-annual activity report
Folder 18: Field office reporting
Folder 19: CES, Interim Report of Medical Advisory Board, 1935
47 130 58 11 1
Box 9:
Variety of loose materials, including copies of issues of Social Security Bulletin, booklets, and internal instructions similar to material in boxes 7 & 8.
Folder 1: Employment Security Bureau, Manual of State Employment, 11/42
Folder 2: Wage Investigation Unit, 2/10/42

Box 10:
Folder 1: Speeches, pamphlets on employment security
Folder 2: Over-sized organizational charts from 1940s
Large collection of loose material, including Social Security Bulletin, and reprints from the Bulletin of articles on Public Assistance (mainly statistical reports). Material dates from 1940s.

Box 11:
Loose material, including: NARA Publication PI-183; news clippings; Public Assistance Report 1940; box shipping lists; Report, Trends in Public Assistance 1933-1939; SSA Files Handbook, 4/73

Box 12:
1 binder, General Files Manual, 1938

Box 13:
2 binders, General Files Manual, 1938

Box 14:
1 binder, General Files Manual, 1938
Federal Security Agency Annual Report 1947
Industrial Classification Codes, Parts I & II, 1937
Files Manual, 1/1/39

Box 15:
2 binders, General Files Manual, 5/38 and 1942
47 130 58 11 2
Box 16:
2 binders, Field Service Manual, Parts 1-7, 1930s and 1940s

Box 17:
2 binders, SSB Administrative Orders 1936-44; Miscellaneous material with same general subject

Box 18:
1 binder, SSB Manual 1935-42
Administrative Orders
Copies of Social Security Bulletin
Misc. office memoranda

Box 19:
2 binders, SSB, Wage Records Manual, Parts 1-7, 1942

Box 20:
SSB/SSA Annual Reports 1936-1953
Statistical Manual 1941

Box 21:
The Fiscal Capacity of the States: A Source Book, April 1938
Report to Congress on community work and training under Title IV of the Social Security Act, 1/67
Report of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, 3/81
Report of Relief Organizations in large cities, 12/41
M.A. Thesis by France Dellon, "The Enactment of the Social Security Act of 1935," 12/47

Box 22:
4 binders: Field Service Manual Parts 2 & 3, 1930s-1940s; SSB Administrative Orders No. 2-59 (1940-1942)
47 130 58 11 3
Box 23:
4 binders: Field Service Manual Parts IV, V and VII, and Supplements

Box 24:
1 binder, Subject Decimal Classifications, 6/1/42

Table 114: Selected Records Related to the John F. Kennedy Assassination (1 box)
(X-REF. TO NARA FINDING AIDS: A1, Entry 60)

RECORD GROUP

STACK AREA

ROW

COMPARTMENT

SHELF

47 650 71 18 7
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