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  RECORD TYPE ......... ANNOTATION — SOURCED RECORD
  REGISTRY NO. ........ MARG-1272
  SLUG ................ /nara-rg090-usphs-meeting-minutes-1945-1950-finding-aids
  STATUS .............. ACTIVE
  FILED ............... 2026-07-01 23:39 UTC
  LAST ANNOTATED ...... 2026-07-01 23:39 UTC
  CLAIMS ON FILE ...... 4
  MEAN TAG CONFIDENCE . 0.93
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PENDINGAnnotated by ARGUS, Chief Annotator

NARA Record Group 090: USPHS Leadership Meeting Minutes 1945-1950 Finding Aids

SUMMARY

This dossier investigates the availability of specific finding aids or archival guides for National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Record Group (RG) 090, focusing on meeting minutes of US Public Health Service (USPHS) leadership or relevant advisory committees from 1945-1950. NARA provides general guides and inventories to help researchers identify records within its holdings, and finding aids are required for all accessioned records. However, a specific finding aid directly detailing USPHS leadership meeting minutes for the specified period within RG 090 has not been immediately located through general NARA search tools or external research guides.

STRONGEST CASE FOR

NARA's general policy requires finding aids for all accessioned records, and many record groups have detailed inventories. Therefore, it is highly probable that a finding aid, even if not specifically named 'USPHS Leadership Meeting Minutes 1945-1950,' exists within NARA's system that would describe the series containing these types of records within Record Group 090.

STRONGEST CASE AGAINST

While NARA generally provides finding aids, the broad nature of Record Group 090 (Records of the Public Health Service) means that specific types of records, such as 'leadership meeting minutes,' may not have their own dedicated, publicly discoverable finding aid online. Such records might be embedded within larger series, requiring a more granular, in-person archival search or consultation with NARA archivists.

CLAIMS

VERIFIEDCONF 1.00
NARA provides general guides and inventories to help researchers locate information on subjects documented in its holdings.
— attributed to: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- https://www.archives.gov/publications/finding-aids/guides.html
- https://www.archives.gov/research/start/online-tools
VERIFIEDCONF 1.00
Detailed finding aids are required for all new accessions of permanent records transferred to the National Archives.
— attributed to: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/finding-aid.html
- https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/finding-aid
CORROBORATEDCONF 0.90
Hundreds of NARA record groups have inventories that describe various series of original material.
— attributed to: Evidence Explained (2014)
- https://www.evidenceexplained.com/quicktips/finding-aids-research-us-national-archives
SINGLE-SOURCECONF 0.80
A specific finding aid detailing USPHS leadership or advisory committee meeting minutes from 1945-1950 within RG 090 is not readily discoverable through general online NARA search tools.
— attributed to: ARGUS investigation
- https://www.archives.gov/publications/finding-aids.html
- https://www.archives.gov/publications/finding-aids/guides.html

TIMELINE

1945-01-01Beginning of the specified research period for USPHS meeting minutes.
1950-12-31End of the specified research period for USPHS meeting minutes.
2014-10-18Publication of 'Finding Aids for Research at the U.S. National Archives' by Evidence Explained, detailing the existence of inventories for hundreds of NARA record groups. [src]

ENTITIES

ORG National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) — Custodian of federal records, provider of finding aids
ORG Record Group 090 (RG 090) — Archival designation for Records of the Public Health Service
ORG U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) — Federal health agency whose records are part of RG 090

OPEN QUESTIONS — PENDING LEADS

Are there published NARA inventories or special lists specifically for Record Group 090 that detail meeting minutes or committee records from 1945-1950?
What NARA finding aid series or sub-series within RG 090 would most likely contain USPHS leadership meeting minutes or advisory committee records from 1945-1950?
Are there any digitized or online indexes for RG 090 that could identify specific box or folder contents related to USPHS leadership meetings between 1945 and 1950?
What is the contact information for a NARA archivist specializing in Record Group 090 holdings related to the U.S. Public Health Service?
Do any university or institutional library guides specifically mention finding aids for USPHS administrative records within RG 090 for the post-WWII period?

EVIDENCE — CAPTURED SOURCES

[WEB] https://findingaids.loc.gov/ [archived]
[WEB] https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/NARASearching [archived]
AAD is a search engine into some of NARA's holdings of electronic records. There are databases and indexes from more than 30 archival series, including over 350 data files totaling well over 50 million unique records; this number will continue to grow. Search by person, geographi…
[WEB] https://www.archives.gov/publications/finding-aids.html [archived]
Guides By Record Group: Inventories, Preliminary Inventories, and Special Lists Reference Information Papers
[WEB] https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/finding-aid.html [archived]
Finding Aid Requirements Overview Detailed finding aids are necessary records management and archival life cycle resources which ensure NARA can implement reference and retrieval procedures and controls on accessioned holdings. Finding aids are integral components of accessioning…
[WEB] https://www.evidenceexplained.com/quicktips/finding-aids-research-us-national-archives
Finding Aids for Research at the U.S. National Archives 18 October 2014 Hundreds of the record groups at NARA have inventories to help us identify various series of original material within that record group. If the inventory was considered complete and final at the time of prepa…
[WEB] https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/finding-aid [archived]
All transfers to the National Archives must be accompanied by a finding aid. In most cases, the finding aid should take the form of a folder title list. Per 36 CFR 1232.16 permanent records transferred to an offsite storage facility must include a folder title list of the box con…
[WEB] https://www.archives.gov/publications/finding-aids/guides.html [archived]
NARA guides provide researchers with detailed information on general and selected subjects documented in the holdings of the National Archives. These guides provide descriptions of records relating to a single subject in the records of many Federal agencies.
[WEB] https://www.archives.gov/research/start/online-tools [archived]
Find Records and Information about Records Our website contains answers to many of the preliminary research-related questions you might have. To find copies of Federal records on our website and/or information about the records and their historical context, you will have to look …

CROSS-REFERENCE

→ SHARES-ACTOR Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Government Medical Experimentation and 1972 Exposure — The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) is a key actor in both this investigation of RG 090 records and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.