Preliminary Inventories No. 73, Cartographic Records of the United States Marine Corps, Record Group 127

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) was created by an act of Congress approved July 11, 1798. This act authorized the organization of 2 battalions of marines and the appointment of staff officers, including an adjutant, a paymaster, and a quartermaster. Around these 3 officers and the Commandant developed the present 4 branches of the Marine Corps Headquarters: the office of the Commandant, the Personnel Department (formerly the Adjutant and Inspector's Office), the Quartermaster's Department, and the Paymaster's Department. The officers and the men of the United States Marine Corps were at first subject to regulations of both the Army and the Navy, but by an act of 1834 they were expressly placed under the laws and regulations governing the Navy except when detached for service with the Army by order of the President. The Commandant is under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.

The cartographic and related records described in this inventory have been arranged are are described in three subgroups, based on the administrative origin of the records.

Contents:

• Administrative maps and related records
• Peacetime maps of foreign areas
  • Aruba
  • Azores
  • Barbados
  • Central America
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Culebra
  • Curacao
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Guadaloupe
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Ireland
  • Jamaica
  • Korea
  • Martinique
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Salvador
  • Venezuela
• Map records of the 4th Brigade, World War I

Charlotte M. Ashby

1954, 8.5" x 11", Paper, 17 pp.

101-A1954