Magyar Távirati Iroda iratai. Ügyviteli iratok (1920-1944)
- Records of the Hungarian News Agency. Administrative documents (1920-1944)
Extent and Medium
85 fasc., 36 vols., 13,71 linear metres
Creator(s)
- Hungarian News Agency
Scope and Content
The collection of the administrative documents of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency contains the documents from the executive committee of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency, minutes of the meetings of its directorate, papers related to its economic matters and personnel questions as well as its correspondence. This last part of correspondence includes exchanges between the Hungarian Telegraph Agency and various other national and international telegraph agencies and reporters. Among others, there is correspondence with agencies in Berlin (1936-1939), Rome (1924-1936) and Vienna (1936-1938). The Hungarian Telegraph Agency pursued its own observation of the press and radio. Its collection also contains letters from the Foreign Ministry that it received between 1938 and 1944.
System of Arrangement
All three parts of the collection are arranged chronologically in the collection with the exception of the so called directed lectures, which are arranged thematically.
Archivist Note
Description was prepared by László Csősz.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0
People
Corporate Bodies
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs