Material includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, records schedules, and specialized documentation relating to administrative and operational functions of the archives. Subjects include microfilming, all phases of records disposition (both historical and current), personnel matters, interaction with other city agencies, records surveys, research requests, technical equipment standards, improvement and expansion of archives facilities, and professional organization activities.

Also included is a reel of microfilm (BCA 232) containing correspondence relating to the committee for safeguarding city records, records survey reports, and an assortment of general administrative items, 1914-1954. Photographs of records storage in City Hall, 1956-64, were transferred to the Peale Museum, and most likely to the Maryland Center for History and Culture when City Life Museums closed.

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