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Pennsylvania State Archives

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Records of the DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS



The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is responsible for administering the Pennsylvania National Guard, the Pennsylvania Veterans Commission, the State Armory Board, the Scotland School for Veterans Children, and veterans' homes in Erie, Hollidaysburg, Spring City (Chester County), Scranton and Pittsburgh. It also administers various programs of assistance to veterans. It was established in 1793 as the Adjutant General's Department, became known as the Department of Military Affairs with the passage of the Administrative Code of 1923, and assumed the name Department of Military and Veterans Affairs in 1995. The head of the Department is the Adjutant General, whose office and duties were also first defined in 1793. Included in the Department at one time were the State Athletic Commission, which was placed in the Department of Revenue in 1937, and the Pennsylvania Aeronautics Commission, whose functions were transferred to the Department of Transportation in 1970.

An asterisk (*) in front of a series title denotes that access to those records is in some way restricted. Please call the Archives Reference staff at (717) 783-3281 to inquire about the exact nature of the restrictions.

Adjutant General

National Guard Of Pennsylvania (1867-[ongoing]), Pennsylvania Reserve Militia (World War I), and the Pennsylvania State Guard (World War II)

Bureau for Veterans Affairs

Commissary General

Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools

Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Erie

NOTE: Access to patient-related records from the Soldiers' and Sailor' Home is restricted by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Quarter-Master General

Scotland School for Veterans Children

Surgeon General

Transportation and Telegraph Department

War History Commission (World War I)


Last minimal processing update: 12/29/2008, acc. #5155 (bmr)


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