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  2. District of Columbia Archives - Wikipedia

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    Efforts to separate the District's archives date to at least 1982 and were formalized with the D.C. Public Records Management Act of 1985. [4] [1] Philip W. Oglvie was made the original director of the office, and a National Archives employee named Dorothy S. Provine joined as D.C.'s first archivist.

  3. Public records - Wikipedia

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    The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.

  4. Prussian Privy State Archives - Wikipedia

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    Until 1883, when Brandenburg, then the only Prussian province without an own provincial archive, founded the Brandenburgian Provincial Archive, the Privy State Archives also collected all the records from that territorial and political entity. By 1901, the institution had developed precise standards for the preservation of public records that ...

  5. Public Record Office - Wikipedia

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    An original cell of the Public Record Office at the Maughan Library. The growing size of the archives held by the PRO and by government departments led to the Public Records Act 1958, which sought to avoid the indiscriminate retention of huge numbers of documents by establishing standard selection procedures for the identification of those documents of sufficient historical importance to be ...

  6. Archives New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Issuing of penalties: It is an offence under the Public Records Act to willfully or negligently damage, dispose of, or destroy any public record, unless it is authorised under by the Chief Archivist. Archives New Zealand can impose penalties on individuals or organisations that do not comply with the PRA.

  7. Lancashire Archives - Wikipedia

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    This was made possible by the Hope Floyd Bequest fund, a fund set up in 1973 after the death of Thomas Hope Floyd. A location index was available on computers, and the issuing and returning of documents in the search room was much quicker. At a cost of £21,530, this helped the archives deliver a quicker, better service. [12]

  8. Mordew - Wikipedia

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    God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed

  9. Dora Bruder - Wikipedia

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    Dora Bruder is a typical example of the themes found across Modiano's work such as memory, loss, recovery, time. [3] [4] [5]The German occupation of Paris and the status of the Jews in Paris during this time is also a central theme of Modiano's work since his first novel.