Pennsylvania State Archives
RG-14
Records of the DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
The Office of the Secretary of Internal Affairs was created by the Constitution of 1874. Under the Constitution and subsequent legislation, the Secretary's Department was assigned all the duties of the Surveyor General, as well as duties involving the supervision of the activities of business organizations and charitable institutions, and responsibility for establishing a Bureau of Industrial Statistics, which later became part of the Department of Commerce. The Department also included a Bureau of Mines, which was abolished upon the creation of the Department of Mines in 1903.
The Department of Internal Affairs contained five major bureaus at the time
of its abolition in 1968, and these were transferred to other agencies. The
Justice Department received the Bureau of Standard Weights and Measures, while
the Bureau of Statistics became part of the Department of Commerce. The Bureau
of Topographic and Geologic Survey was initially transferred to the State Planning
Board, and later in 1971 to the Department of Environmental Resources. The Bureau
of Land Records became part of the Department of Community Affairs, which had
also received the Bureau of Municipal Affairs from Internal Affairs in 1967.
A More Detailed History of this
department is available.
- Annual Census Reports of Manufactured, Mixed, and Natural
Gas Companies, 1956-1967. [*series continues in RG-31]
(1 carton) {#14.5} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Census Reports of Motor Bus and Electric Transportation Carriers,
1957-1967. (1 carton, 1 box) {#14.6} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Census Reports of Railroads and Railroad Repair
Establishments, 1956-1967. [*series continues in
RG-31] (1 carton) {#14.7} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Census Reports of Water Utilities, 1956-1967.
[*series continues in RG-31] (4 cartons, 1 box)
{#14.8} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Canal and Navigation Companies to the Auditor General
and the Department of Internal Affairs, 1859, 1862-1871, 1873-1875, 1877-1935.
(2 cartons, 1 box) {#14.9} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Manufactured Gas Companies, 1931-1936, 1939-1955. (3 cartons)
{#14.10} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Motor Vehicles, 1935-1938, 1954-1955. (9 folders) {#14.11}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Municipal Water Authorities, 1949-1955. (1 box, 1 carton)
{#14.12} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Municipal Water Systems, 1931-1935, 1939-1955. (10 cartons)
{#14.13} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Natural Gas Companies, 1931-1936, 1939-1955. (9 cartons)
{#14.14} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Non-Fixed Transportation Utilities, 1922-1971. (253 cartons)
[see Record Group 37 for this series]
- Annual Reports of Passenger and Street Railway Companies, 1861-1955. (142
cartons) {#14.15} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Private and Municipal Electric Light,
Heat and Power Companies and Steam Heat Companies, 1931-1967. [*series
continues in RG-31] (7 cartons) {#14.16} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Private Water Companies, 1931-1936, 1938-1955. (17 cartons)
{#14.17} [Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Railroad and Steam Railway Companies to the Auditor General
and the Department of Internal Affairs, 1859-1957. (1 box, 333 cartons) {#14.18}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of School District Authorities, 1961. (1 folder) {#14.19}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Sewer Systems, 1952-1967. [*series
continues in RG-31] (2 cartons) {#14.20} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Telegraph and Telephone Companies,
1868-1871, 1873-1875, 1877-1936, 1939-1967. [*series
continues in RG-31] (40 cartons, 3 boxes) {#14.21} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Water, Light, Heat, and Power Companies, 1921-1922, 1925,
1927-1930. (3 cartons) {#14.22} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Census Returns of Manufacturing Industries and Manufactured
Products, 1963. (2 cartons) {#14.23} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Industrial Summary Forms, 1927-1929. (3 folders) {#14.24} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record of Marriages, 1885-1891. (4 volumes, 1 box) {#14.25} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
- Register of Physicians in Pennsylvania, 1885-1889. (3 volumes) {#14.38}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Registers of Steam Railroads, Street Railways, Canals, Telegraph and Telephone
Companies, 1890-1926, 1932-1936. (1 box, 3 cartons). {#14.26} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration Record of Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery, 1881-1889.
(1 volume) {#14.27} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Accounts of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological Survey,
1875-1877. (3 folders) {#14.28} [Description]
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- County Geological Maps of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological
Survey, 1878-1884. (1 volume) {#14.29} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Diary of Charles Ashburner, Assistant to the Board of Commissioners for
the Second Geological Survey, 1876. (1 volume) {#14.30}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Field Expense Account Book of Charles Ashburner and A.W. Sheafer of the
Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological Survey, 1879. (1 volume) {#14.31}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Field Note Books of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological
Survey, 1875. (4 volumes) {#14.32} [Description]
[Holdings]
- General Correspondence of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological
Survey, 1874-1885 and undated. (23 folders) {#14.33} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Grand Atlases of the Second Geological Survey, 1884-1885. (6 volumes) {#14.34}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Minutes of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological Survey, undated,
1874-1876. (1 volume, 1 folder) {#14.35} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Publication Plates of the Second Geological Survey, undated. (6 items) {#14.36}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Official Test Records of Weighing and Measurement Apparatus, 1922-1945.
(3 volumes) {#14.40} [Description]
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Last processing update: 1/31/2011, acc. #3946