Secretary's Department Records Division Files

37173

1946-1992

sous-fonds

photographic records

ca. 56,220 photographs, 1023 audio reels, 750 audio cassettes, 43 albums, and 3 linear feet of textual records.

English

Contains closed material.

Sous-fonds consists of six series from the Records Division: 1987 Records Survey Files, Amendments to the Articles of Agreement, Annual Meetings Photographs, Holiday Cards, Records Division Photographs, and Sound Recordings. The Annual Meetings Photographs Series includes photographs documenting historically pertinent individuals, boards, committees, and events that were either requisitioned by Secretary's Department staff or were collected by the Records Division archives and were authored by both IMF photographers and commercial photographers. The Records Division Photographs consist of photographs of Executive Directors, Alternate Executive Directors, Chairmen of the Boards of Governors, the Executive Board (group photographs), Managing Directors, Deputy Managing Directors, department heads and other senior staff, membership ceremonies, anniversary lunches and meetings, events related to the Articles of Agreement, visits from representatives of member countries, committees (Committee of 20, Development Committee, Interim Committee), the Bretton Woods Recreation Center (BWRC), IMF headquarters buildings (Washington, DC and European Offices), departmental photographs, trainees (pre-IMF Institute), and other events. The Sound Recordings Series contains sound recordings of a variety of meetings, including the Annual Meetings. Some IMF training sessions have also been recorded and are included in this series. This series has fourteen sub-series, arranged alphabetically by title of meeting. Other records were created and/or maintained by the Records Division over time as part of its duties to manage the IMF’s records and to preserve institutional memory.