Official Personnel Folders (OPF), Archival Holdings
The archival holdings of civilian Official Personnel Folders (OPF) include records created by various Federal agencies during the period 1850-1951.* For information about Federal civilian employees whose employment ended after 1951.
| Agency | Dates of Holdings* |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | |
| Agriculture | 1890 - 1951 |
| Bureau of Agricultural Economics | 1912 - 1953 |
| Agriculture Extension Service | 1908 - 1947 |
| Agriculture Marketing Service | 1935 - 1947 |
| Agriculture Research Service | 1900 - 1947 |
| Bureau of Animal Industry | 1900 - 1947 |
| Comm - FmHA & Predecessors | 1951 |
| Advisory Committee on Education | 1937-1939 |
| Alaska Railroad | 1903 - 1965 |
| Army and Air Force | 1939 - 1951 |
| Board of Investigation of Research - Transportation | 1941 - 1944 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | 1937 - 1947 |
| Bureau of Engraving and Printing | 1863 - 1951 |
| Bureau of the Accounts | 1936 - 1947 |
| Bureau of the Census | 1900 - 1947 |
| Civil Aeronautics Board | 1943 - 1947 |
| Office of Censorship | 1939 - 1945 |
| Childrens Bureau | 1912 - 1953 |
| Civil Service Commission | 1883 - 1950 |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | 1933 - 1943 |
| Office of Civilian Defense | 1941 - 1945 |
| Coast and Geodetic Survey | 1903 - 1956 |
| Commerce Department | 1889 - 1951 |
| Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commissions) | 1947 - 1949 |
| Committee for Congested Production Areas | 1943 - 1945 |
| Committee of Fair Employment Practice | 1941 - 1946 |
| Office of the Comptroller of Currency | 1951 |
| U.S. Customs Service | 1891 - 1967 |
| Bureau of Dairy Industry | 1945 |
| Defense Transportation | 1941 - 1949 |
| Department of Health Education and Welfare | 1904 - 1947 |
| Emergency Management | 1941 - 1944 |
| Farm Credit Banks/Federal Land Banks | 1922 - 1973 |
| Farmers Home Administration | 1932 - 1951 |
| Federal Aviation Administration | 1948 - 1956 |
| Federal Bureau of Prisons | 1919 - 1947 |
| Federal Crop Insurance Corporation | 1938 - 1947 |
| Federal Power Commission | 1929 - 1947 |
| Federal Housing Administration | 1935 - 1959 |
| Federal Housing Authority | 1947 |
| Federal Public Housing Authority | 1938 - 1941 |
| Federal Security Agency | 1870 - 1951 |
| Federal Trade Commission | 1903 - 1952 |
| Food Administration | 1917 - 1919 |
| Food and Drug Administration | 1906 - 1947 |
| Fish and Wildlife Service | 1938 - 1947 |
| Foreign Economic Administration | 1940 - 1945 |
| Forest Service | 1821 - 1972 |
| Gallaudet College | 1965 - 1973 |
| General Services Administration | 1944 - 1951 |
| U.S. Geological Survey | 1879 - 1947 |
| Office of Government Reports | 1935 - 1948 |
| Housing Corporation | 1918 - 1933 |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service | 1898 - 1947 |
| Independent Agencies | 1925 - 1952 |
| Indian Affairs | 1850 - 1957 |
| Inland Waterways Corporation | 1926 - 1936 |
| Interior Department | 1904 - 1968 |
| Internal Revenue Service | 1894 - 1952 |
| Justice Department | 1850 - 1950 |
| Labor Department | 1884 - 1951 |
| Land Management | 1935 - 1954 |
| Maritime Administration | 1936 - 1961 |
| Maritime Labor Board | 1938 - 1942 |
| Bureau of Mines | 1910 - 1947 |
| Bureau of the Mint | 1893 - 1947 |
| National Bureau of Standards | 1941 - 1947 |
| National Mediation Board | 1920 - 1926 |
| National Park Service | 1921 - 1960 |
| National Recovery Administration | 1933 - 1936 |
| Navy Department | 1919 - 1951 |
| National Youth Administration | 1937 - 1944 |
| Natural Resource Planning Board | 1934 - 1938 |
| United States New York World's Fair Commission | 1937 - 1941 |
| Panama Canal Commission | 1900 - 1970 |
| Petroleum Administration for War | 1941 - 1946 |
| Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering | 1908 - 1946 |
| Price Decontrol Board | 1946 - 1948 |
| Post Office Department | 1919 - 1951 |
| Office of U.S. Attorneys | 1964 |
| Office of Community War Services | 1941 - 1945 |
| Office of Housing Expediter | 1947 |
| Office of Inter-American Affairs | 1942 - 1953 |
| Office of Price Administration | 1940 - 1947 |
| Office of Scientific Research and Development | 1941 - 1947 |
| Office of Territories | 1907 - 1951 |
| Office of War Information | 1933 - 1945 |
| Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion | 1942 - 1947 |
| Prison Industries Reorganization Administration | 1935 - 1940 |
| Project J | 1945 |
| Public Buildings Service | 1900 - 1950 |
| Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital | 1908 - 1933 |
| Bureau of Public Debt | 1917 - 1947 |
| Public Health Service | 1915 - 1949 |
| Public Housing Administration | 1937 - 1947 |
| Railroad Administration | 1918 - 1937 |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 1902 - 1957 |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | 1932 - 1957 |
| Rural Electrification Administration | 1936 - 1947 |
| Russian Railway Service Corps | 1917 - 1920 |
| Smaller War Plant Corporation | 1942 - 1945 |
| U.S. Shipping Board | 1917 - 1937 |
| Selective Service System | 1861 - 1951 |
| Social Security Administration | 1947 |
| Soil Conservation Service | 1900 - 1947 |
| State Department | 1882 - 1951 |
| Sugar Equalization Board | 1947 |
| Treasury Department | 1883 - 1962 |
| Veterans Administration | 1870 - 1951 |
| War Assets Administration | 1946 - 1947 |
| War Finance Corporation | 1918 - 1926 |
| War Production Board | 1942 - 1947 |
| War Relocation Authority | 1942 - 1946 |
| Weather Bureau | 1941 - 1947 |
| Works Progress Administration | 1933 - 1944 |
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* Dates of holdings are not all inclusive. OPFs that document employment after 1951 with some of the agencies listed above may now be open to the public. However, please note: not all OPFs of former civil servants whose employment ended prior to 1952 are open to the public. The OPFs of individuals employed prior to 1952 by some agencies whose personnel management systems do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are not yet open to the public. Access to such records is restricted under the Privacy Act of 1974 (P. L. 93-579) and only limited types of information from these records are releasable to non-authorized users. Once a specific record has been identified and located, the NPRC will make a determination on the record's status and releasability.
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