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Archival registers

Scope note

Finding aids developed at the Library of Congress to describe groups of papers, collections, and records by giving their provenance and conditions of administration, their scope and general content, including span and bulk dates, biographical notes about the person, group, or organization whose material it is, its arrangement, a container or folder listing, and, on occasion, selective document indexes. SAA

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300026552

Broader Terms used

finding aids

Term used for

registers, archival

Equivalent Terms used

archival register

Created

13yrs ago

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