Metadata: Treasury Chamber of Suwalki
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Gerosios Vilties g. 10, 03134 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- (8 5) 213 74 82
- Web address:
- http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lvia_naujienos.html
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- f. 697
- Title:
- Treasury Chamber of Suwalki
- Title (official language):
- Suvalkų gubernijos iždo rūmai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Treasury Chamber of Suwalki
- Date(s):
- 1867/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,215 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises the materials of the Treasury Chamber of Suwalki, including circulars, correspondence, data on the employment of government officials and financial records such as taxation lists and account books from various government institutions.
Several files contain data on the Jewish residents in the governorate of Suwalki. These reports include violations of trade and taxation regulations and papers on renting houses for the government's needs.
Jewish-related materials can also be found in various lists and record books: population lists, lists of real estate owners, lists of tax payers, lists of debtors and overdue debts and appeals by owners of land or buildings.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the Treasury Chamber of Suwalki were kept in the Moscow Central State Historical Archives in Russia until 1957, when they were transferred to the Lithuanian Central State Archives in Vilnius. They are currently held with other collections from the Tsarist period in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Treasury Chamber of Suwalki was established on July 1 1869 and supervised the activities of banks and other financial institutions. It was also in charge of collecting taxes, supervising industry and trade and registering the governorate's population. It was abolished by the Soviet government in 1918.
- Access points: locations:
- Suwalki
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Real estate
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes two inventories, arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
- Finding aids:
- For online data see the Lithuanian archives' website.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Galina Baranova, Lithuanian State Historical Archives, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
