The Archives houses over 50 collections that document the evolution of the Agency from the early National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to about 1996. Archives as a business run about 30 years behind the current year and records are released on a rolling basis.
What we collect:
- Agency-created documentation of the progression and activities of all five VA corridors that are scheduled as temporary but still retain historical value.
- Research material gathered during VA authors’ book production.
- Academic scholarship collection, written by researchers whose theses and dissertations have drawn heavily from NVAHC resources.
- An education collection built to allow for archival public programming and educational outreach opportunities.
- Archival materials that support the collections of the NVAHC’s other component offices.
What we do not collect:
- Military records, official or unofficial
- Veteran’s records
- Military or personal memorabilia
- Patches
- Clothing
- Models
- Conference proceedings unless the VA was a primary sponsor
- Commercially produced merchandise
- Promotional material, including stock photographs, mass-produced video or “courtesy” materials, unless it fills a hole in the collection.
- Records that are scheduled to go to NARA or are that are still in the lifecycle process.
