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Series comprises the incoming and outgoing clear cables of the Preparatory Commission, which communicated with member states and its internal administration on matters at hand. Arranged in small groupings (e.g., regarding site selection), and therein chronologically.

Series consists of the minutes of the Preparatory Commission First to Eighth Committees and the Executive Committee. Minutes of the Site Sub-Committee are also included. The majority are verbatim minutes, with summary records of the First and Fourth Committees appended to the series. Arranged in committee number order, followed by the Site Sub-Committee, then the Executive Committee, and therein chronologically.

Series consists of records which supplemented those in the Registry filing system, and other particular types of records, such as Commission minutes, cables, and printed documents, in other words, chronological files, working papers, administrative files, and miscellaneous files. There is no particular sequence to the arrangement, but appears in this order: technical committee working papers, Sub-committee on Communications, Advisory Group of Expects (financial matters), Orders of the Day Office files, miscellaneous files, and at the end, the chronological files (1 Sept. 1945 to 30 Mar. 1946).

Series consists of the official documents of the Commission (which are dated predominantly June to December 1945), those of the primary bodies documenting their decisions, and all the supporting documentation thereto. Included are the following types of documents: administrative and budgetary questions, Advisory Group of Experts, Coordination and Drafting Committee, Economic and Social Council, general questions, General Assembly, Interim Committee on Headquarters, Advisory Committee on Information, legal questions, League of Nations, Security Council, Steering Committee, Trusteeship Council, press releases, general documents. The last volume (Volume XVIII) contains an index to all the documents (dated 1948). There is a translated parallel set for Volumes I to VIII in French. Arranged by language, and therein alphabetically by type of document.

This series consists of mixed record types (documents, maps, brochures, photographs and posters) of the Interim Committee on Headquarters, which together describe the process leading to the selection of a permanent headquarters for the United Nations. Records of predecessor entities, including the Preparatory Commission, Executive Committee, Sub-Committee, Committee Eight (on General Questions) and Committee Ten (on General Questions) are also included. The Preparatory Commission was empowered to select a site for the permanent headquarters of the United Nations by the Interim Arrangements, signed 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, on the same occasion as the signing of the United Nations Charter. The Prepatory Commisssion established the Executive Committee, which formed ten committees, including Committee Eight and Committee Ten. A Sub-Committee appointed by Committee Eight created the Interim Committee on Headquarters in December 1945. An Inspection Group was subsequently tasked with visiting sites in the eastern United States that were approved by the Interim Committee on 28 December 1945.

Records in this series include summary reports, technical reports, recommendations and requirements, proposals, correspondence with officials and citizens, brochures, maps, photographs, posters and one photographic negative.

Please note the following inconsistencies relating to the dates of records in this series:

• Where earliest and/or latest dates are not supplied by the contents of a folder, the default dates given are 1 January 1945 to 31 December 1946, representing the period of the entire series, including the steps preceding the visit of the Inspection Group to the United States on 5 January 1946. However, in S-0532-0001-0004, the information release dated 4 January 1946 cites the process of selecting a permanent headquarters for the United Nations as tracing back to 26 June 1945, during the signing of the United Nations Charter. Therefore, the default dates of the series should more accurately be represented as 26 June 1945 to 31 December 1946.
• Earliest and latest dates noted in the series do not include the publication dates of maps, brochures and photographs in the series. However, in some cases, they do.

The following contents may be of particular interest for researchers; however, please note that records of note that are not supplied below are found throughout the series:

S-0532-0001-0004 (information release and extracts from reports describing background of project)
S-0532-0006-0001 (photo of meeting, uncaptioned)
S-0532-0010-0020 (working maps)
S-0532-0011-0001 (official vote for Manhattan-East River site)
S-0532-0011-0002 and 0003 (report, letters and drawings by Le Corbusier; some in fragile condition)
S-0532-0014-0004 (map - Districts Visited by the Inspection Group)

Series is the registry system of files kept by the Preparatory Commission in the course of consultative and administrative activities to prepare for the establishment of the United Nations. Some of the records date from a post-Preparatory Commission period (the Executive Secretary functioned as the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 11 January 1946; the Secretary-General was appointed 1 February 1946). Included are miscellaneous records of the Executive Committee, official records of the Preparatory Commission, administrative records relating to the establishment of the International Court of Justice, a few delegation files, early records of the Economic and Social Council (15 July 1945 - 16 Nov. 1945), early sub-committee records of the General Assembly of the United Nations (25 Apr. 1945 - 30 Jan. 1946), some correspondence with member state missions to the United Nations (2 Oct. 1945 - 15 Dec. 1945), General Assembly files relating to proposed sites for the United Nations Headquarters (14 Jan. 1945 - 30 Jan. 1946), a few League of Nations negotiation files (11 Sept. 1945 - 7 Jan. 1946), correspondence with the press, correspondence with libraries, and letter registers (24 Sept. 1945 - 14 Oct. 1946). Arranged in file classification number order, i.e., in the order cited above.