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Preliminary Inventory 33: Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Bureau of Ordnance (Record Group 74)

by William F. Shonkwiler

Contents:
Front Cover
Title Page
Foreword
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chiefs of the Bureau of Ordnance
Inventory: General Correspondence
Records Relating to the Manufacture of Guns… 1842-1913
Records Relating to Gun Exercises, 1854-1918
Records of Guns and Ordnance Material, 1818-1942
Records Relating to Patents and Inventions, 1826-1926
Records Relating to Supplies… 1836-1939
Records of Units in the Bureau, 1900-1943
Records of Ordnance Boards, 1863-1911
Special Collection of Records, 1849-1905
Maps, Photographs, and Drawings, 1818-1943

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