Archive Boxes

Overview

Roughly 500 boxes of paper records exist, primarily stored at Pickens-Kane, and some within the lab.

Collections

Collections from several institutions made their way to us. Some items were disposed of due to hazard concerns, and others were donated to other organizations. See USTUR Page as WSU

• Dr. J. Newell Stannard Collection / Aka JNS
  • Are we actually in possession of this collection?
  • The NRA Stannard Collection compliments the University of Tennessee Library Radiation Research Collection which contains Dr. Stannard’s original writings.
• University of California at Davis Collection - Transferred to NRA in 1992.
• Dr. Miriam Finkel Collection
  • See PAT3.LTR

Identifiers/Barcodes

Many hands have been involved in labeling the boxes. They all had their various conventions. The boxes are currently stored at Pickens-Kane.

• Pickens-Kane Storage Identifiers:
  • Green 7-digit Numbers commonly starting with 251, 256, 258. Also a yellow/tan sticker indicating the floor.
• NRA Identifiers. See Media:INVENTOR.TXT. Barcodes may have been generated by a software from "Worthington Data Solutions"
• It's possible that there is an older format of barcodes: REASSIGN.DB has a mapping of these.
  • Barcode or number which has a format of XYYYYYY Where X is a letter representing the organization and Y is a 6-digit number which is a leading-zero-padded sequence number starting at 000001
  • These commonly had Barcodes, but check for handwritten numbers of the same format!!!
    • X is a letter which indicates (vaguely) the organization. See LABEL.DB
      • A: ANL: T. Fritz, D. Doyle
      • D: DAVIS: J. Parks, O. Raabe
      • U: UTAH: S. Miller, W. Angus
      • P: PNL: G. Dagle
• CONTAINER_CODE I\V\CONTAIN
  • CODE, TRANS:

0 Not Applicable/Unknown
1 Shipping box
2 Bookcase
3 Paraffin block cabinet
4 File cabinet
5 Glass jar
6 Slide cabinet
7 Plastic tub
8 Radiograph cabinet
9 Acid-free box
10 File Cabinet

• ITEM_CODE I\V\ITEM
  • CODE, TRANS:

0 Not applicable/unknown
1 Complete book
2 Clinical records
3 Laboratory annual report
4 Journal article
5 Letter
6 Notebook
7 Proceedings
8 Report to a government agency
9 Newsletter
10 Newspaper article
11 Memorandum
12 Tissue specimen in formalin
13 Tissue specimen in alcohol
14 Bone specimen in alcohol
15 Bone specimen in formalin
16 Paraffin block
17 Dog biopsies box logbook
18 Paraffin slide
19 Slide radiograph
20 Radiograph
21 Thesis on file at a University library
22 Computer tape (nine track)
23 Portrait
24 Unpublished manuscript
25 Miscellaneous items
26 Magnetic Media
27 Inventory letter
28 Folder of related documents
29 Computer file
30 Report draft
31 Computer diskette
32 Transcript
33 Compilation of Testimony
34 Symposium
35 Report to the public
36 Directory
37 Environmental Statement
38 Bibliography
40 Compendium of Laboratory Reports
41 Envelope

Conventions of Specific Labs

• UCD / Davis Boxes: See file Media:UCD_DOC.W51.PDF
• HRAD51\PNL9NRA\JNS makes mention of a physical box inventory

Boxes by animal

Monkeys

• Medical File folders exist (such as PK box 2582160) that start with an M and are followed by two or three digits. These appear to be ITRI records.

Pig

• Approximately 5 boxes containing pig records were returned to PK around mid 2022.