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We make original records available to researchers in the research rooms, provide information about the records for users, and make reproductions of records for a fee. </p> <h2> <a name="records"></a>About the Records</h2> <p> The textual holdings of both Archives I and Archives II encompass very broad spans of records of many government agencies, and researchers need to keep this in mind when requesting material from the National Archives. </p> <p> The records housed in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, include U.S. Supreme Court records; pre-WWII military including military service and pension files from the Revolution to the Spanish American War; New Deal agency records; naval and maritime including pre-World War II Navy and Coast Guard records; records relating to Native Americans and public lands, Immigration and Naturalization Service records; Census records; and a variety of smaller groups of records. </p> <p> The records in the National Archives at College Park include those of the Departments of State, Justice, Treasury, Interior, Labor, Commerce, Energy, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Health and Human Services, and Transportation. 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Although we try to provide as much help as we can through the mail, in most cases there is no substitute old-fashioned in-person research. This remains true despite advances in technology. </p> <p> <strong>Requests for specific documents / files / folders:</strong> </p> <p> To order copies of documents identified through on-site research, through the <a href="/research/catalog/">National Archives Catalog</a> searches, or through use of other descriptive resources, please indicate as much of the following information as possible: <strong>National Archives Identifier</strong> (in the case of online catalog descriptions), <strong>Record Group Number</strong>, <strong>Creating Organization</strong>, <strong>Series Title</strong>, <strong>Box Number</strong> (if any), <strong>Folder Title</strong> (if any), <strong>Document Title</strong> (if any), and any other information that identifies dates, a government office, a subseries title, or a writer or contributor. 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