Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Budapest Főváros Levéltára (Budapest Municipal Archives)

lished a source collection with the title ,Források Budapest múltjából" (Sources from the History of Budapest) in four volumes, containing characteristic, mostly unpublished sources relating to the past of Budapest from 1686 to 1950. This opened the series of our planned source publications. It was in 1973 that our second series of publications was begun under the title of levéltári dokumentáció" (Archival Documentation), destined for descriptions, catalogues and other finding aids on the material of the archives. In our third series of publications we intend to publish studies on city history. Both our endeavours for public education and the solution of our other tasks are effectively helped by the Executive Commission of Budapest City Council. This made the building up of the technical apparatus of the Archives and the large-scale restoration of the most jeopardized archival material possible. Several measures were taken also for the solution of our problems of premises and the securing of adequate working conditions. Owing to these we intend to settle a considerable part of the archival material to an edifice with modern equipment in 1976. The staff of the Archives totals 47 persons. It is led by the director, under whose guidance the following organizational units exist in the repository: Section I (feudal and capitalistic periods) is in charge of the Buda, Pest and Óbuda archives up to 1873, the archives of the capital of Budapest from 1873 to 1944, the records of administrative and judicial organs, institutes, institutions, associations belonging to the competence of the Archives up to 1944, or 1950, respectively, the papers of guilds, trade corporations, former ecclesiastical organs, families and persons, the collections, the collection of maps and that of plans, keeps the register of street names, is responsible for the central service of research and loans. Section II (socialist period) is in charge of the records of the central organs and district prefectures of the capital Budapest from 1945 to 1950, those of Budapest City Council and the districtual councils produced from 1950 and taken over regularly, the records of the organs of popular power and established for special purposes after the liberation (national committees and screening committees), those of the administrative and judicial organs, institutes, institutions, corporations and associations after 1945, the duplicates of state registers for the area of Budapest and the deeds securing city rights. Section III (economic organs) is in charge of the records of municipal public works, of economic organs and enterprises of the feudal, capitalistic and socialist periods, managing the research service at Hess András Square.