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

Budapest Főváros Levéltára (Budapest Municipal Archives)

some penitentiaries and houses of correction, and also those of numerous public notaries. The material of law courts and public prosecutions total 1903, those of penitentiaries and houses of correction 236, those of public notaries 282 running metres. The bulk of the 430 running metres of the records preserved under the head institutes and institutions is made up of those of the educational institutions. At present we preserve the material of about 650 Budapest schools, among them not only that of schools kept up by the capital (once so-called "communal"), but also of state, confessional and private schools active in Budapest, i.e. of primary (elementary or "popular", later "general") schools, secondary schools ("civic" schools, gymnasia, lycea, "real" schools, special secondary schools for trade, commerce and agriculture), training schools for teachers, nurses, district nurses, nursery school mistresses, industrial schools, training institutes for trade and commercial apprentices, special courses for trade and commerce, music schools, etc., together with the records of some higher schools. The origin and also the material of some educational institutions reach back to the last century. As to the papers of the guilds active in Buda, Pest and Obuda, a fragment of these (20 running meters) have come into archival custody, together with those of the trade corporations, established in the 1870s in Budapest, having preserved the former unfortunately but fragmentarily. The nineteenthtwentieth century records of the trade corporations themselves are less defective. We preserve 647 running metres of 47 trade corporations and some other public bodies. Beside their historical source value these records may be used also for practical purposes (the legitimation of qualification and labour relation). The papers of the cultural, economic, special and other associations in Budapest in the nineteenth and twentieth century have come to archival custody rather fragmentarily and by chance. This is why the material of 75 associations totals only 50 running metres and of this sum almost 37 is due to a single association: the Budapest Voluntary Ambulance Association. From the archival groups of the economic organs, totalling cca 1850 running metres, especially important are those of public works, enterprises, banks and credit institutions, commercial and other institutes, or their late nineteenth century precursors between 1850 and 1950 which aimed at the provision of water, gas, electric current, traffic and feeding to the capital. The striving study of the history of enterprises partly bases on the archival material of the trade, commercial, traffic, or catering enterprises, credit and insurance companies, private, then taken into state