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Series
General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Photographs
Catalogue reference: RG 54
What's it about?
RG 54
This series consists solely of photographs. The first accession depicts members of staff sorting and indexing for National Registration and the National Health Service Central Register in 1940.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 54
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Photographs
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Date (When the record was created)
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1931 - 1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists solely of photographs. The first accession depicts members of staff sorting and indexing for National Registration and the National Health Service Central Register in 1940.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- General Register Office, 1836-1970
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1970-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5 photograph(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2008 Office for National Statistics
from 1994 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Census
- National Health Service
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13379/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
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