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Historical Government Documents

STEP 1: Browse for Topic



1. After finding the appropriate cumulative index, search for your topic of interest.  In my case, I looked up the floods in Kansas and found the following:

2. Pull the volume (by year) for the entry you found in the index and turn to the appropriate page so you can determine if the publication would be useful.  If so, record the information provided.

STEP 2: Location or Request the Publication

The best place to look for digitized documents is the: 



Or you should consider requesting the resource using