 HRS publications from Tennessee, Maine, Utah, and Washington, D.C. | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1935 |
| Dissolved | 1943 |
| Parent agency | Works Progress Administration |
The Historical Records Survey (HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States. Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives. The official mission statement was the "discovery, preservation, and listing of basic materials for research in the history of the United States". The creation of the Historical Records Survey was one of the signal events "in what Solon Buck called the 'archival awakening' of the 1930s".[1]