How are the finding aids organized?
The descriptions in a finding aid start with a high-level overview of the group of records (called fonds or collections). After reading this overview you can click to detailed information on each mid-level sub-group, known as series and sometimes subseries. Available series will be provided in a list on the left side of your screen. Immediately after each series description, on the same screen, you can scroll through file descriptions and sometimes item lists. If scanned documents are available, there will be links to them from these lists. Some additional definitions may be useful for understanding the finding aid: • b&w—black and white, used to describe a photograph • collection—an artificial accumulation of documents of any provenance brought together on the basis of some common characteristic • fonds—all of the documents created, accumulated and used by one individual or organization in the course of their activities or functions • series—documents within a fonds grouped together b
