Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

Search Hints for the Pacific Region Archives
(San Bruno)


No. 38. Mahukona Light-Station. View looking NW. by N, 08/03/1904, ARC Identifier: 296065.

The National Archives (NARA) Pacific Region in San Bruno, California, is one of the National Archives' 11 Regional Archives. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) includes descriptions of records held by the Regional Archives. The online catalog allows you to filter your search results by location. The search hints below highlight the Pacific Region's records available in ARC.

ARC is a work in progress, and NARA staff add new descriptions to ARC all the time. Over 68% of the Regional Archives' records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Pacific Region (San Bruno) staff.

Featured Topics

The featured topics are a sample of subjects covered by records held by the Pacific Region and described in ARC. Follow the search instructions, or customize your search with your own keywords.

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the yellow Search button to go to the Basic search screen.
  3. Enter keywords (use some of the sample keywords below or your own) in the Keywords box.
  4. Select the limit results radio button for 2000.
  5. (Optional step:) Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies to retrieve digitized documents and photographs.
  6. Select the Location filter for NARA's Pacific Region (San Bruno).
  7. Press the Go button.
  8. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.
Topics Sample ARC Keyword Searches Sample Digitized Documents
Agriculture
  • agricultur%
  • food administration
  • Indians and (agriculture)
Asian-Pacific Immigration
  • Angel Island
  • Asian or Pacific
  • Chinese immigration
  • immigration
  • Japanese immigration
  • naturalization

Identification Photograph of Cho Ming Tsai, issued at Tientsin, China, 09/08/1913, ARC Identifier: 296462.
Atomic Energy
 atomic bomb
Court Records
  • admiralty
  • appeal or appeals
  • bankruptcy
  • criminal
  • equity
  • petition or petitions
  • Tokyo Rose
Environment
  • mines or mining
  • natural resources
  • national park

Mineral certificate entered as defendant's exhibit no. 1 in the matter of Case 2900, Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining Company., ca. 1883 ARC Identifier: 295948
Ethnic History
  • African Americans
  • Asian or Pacific
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Guam
  • Samoa
Japanese Internment
  • Japan%
  • Pearl Harbor
Labor
Military Service
  • military
  • selective service
Native Americans
  • California Judgment Roll
  • Carson Agency
  • cattle
  • education
  • Fort Bidwell
  • Indian affairs
  • Indian school
  • Reno Agency
  • Round Valley

Photograph of children and grounds of Carson/Stewart Indian School., 1935 ?, ARC Identifier: 296123
Naval records
  • Hunters Point
  • Mare Island
  • lighthouse
  • naval
  • Pearl Harbor

Naval photograph documenting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which initiated US participation in World War II. Navy's caption: The battleship USS ARIZONA sinking after being hit by Japanese air attack on Dec. 7,1941., 12/07/1941, ARC ID 295977

Public Lands
  • land%
  • land files
  • public lands
San Francisco

Warden's notebook page, with "mug shot," of John L. Miller, 17-AZ., 1934 - 1936, ARC Identifier: 296703
Work Projects Administration
  • California and work projects
  • Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC
  • school%
  • community
  • Work Projects Administration

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