Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)
Fejér Megyei Levéltár (Fejér County Archives)
composition and position of the students. These records reach from J 874 to 1944. One of the most valuable archival groups is that of the Székesfehérvár public school of the Pauline-Cistercian order, dated from 1776 to 1948. Among the corporations we notice the collection of guild papers (17021872), the records of the trade corporations (1875-1949), the Székesfehérvár Commercial Association (1801-1898), the flood-prevention companies and the forest communities. The guild material is incomplete, partly preserved by the local museum. Of the archival groups of associations (1861-1948) we mention some cultural, social, political and charitable ones. Among the economic organs the material of the Felmayer Medium Fabric is significant, enabling one to follow its development from the middle of the past century to 1953. The war factories established before and during World War II are represented by a strongly selected material. The material of the credit and insurance companies is typical, consisting mainly of the records of the Székesfehérvár Savings Bank (from 1841), the village credit corporations, and the local branches of the Hungarian National Bank. The credit and insurance company material reaches up to 1947. Valuable agricultural enterprises are the Enying, Ercsi, Iszkaszentgyörgy and Előszállás estates. The material of the farmers' cooperatives founded after 1950 is insignificant. Notable ecclesiastical archival groups are the archives of the Székesfehérvár Cathedral Chapter as a place of authenticity (1825-1895) and the records of the Cistercian and Franciscan Convents (1725-1944). Family papers are valuable, consisting of those of the local aristocracy (the families Bajzáth, Batthyány, Csekonics, Habsburg, Károlyi, Lamberg, Nedeczky, Miskey, Zichy), the landed gentry and some bourgeois families (1463-1944). Personal papers are represented by those of advocates, craftsmen, tradespeople, estate employees and pedagouges (1775-1944). The collections embrace posters, mourning-cards, photographs and maps (1820-1944). The archival material of the revolutions after World War I is fragmentary. But we have the records of county and city administration, also of some agricultural and industrial enterprises. The records of the post-liberation, democratic organs: national and screening committees, and landclaiming committees are almost complete, typical of the events between 1945 and 1948. One of the results of democratic change has been a new administrative
