1934. The mission to collect, protect and preserve the records of the United States government 234d h and make those records available so every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from our past. Today, that collection is over 13 billion documents, 43 million photographs, miles and miles of film and video and more than 5 billion electronic records. The Fastest Growing format. These records start with the documents signed at valley forge and go up to the tweets being created as i am speaking in the white house. And the National Archives is more than just this building. We are a nationwide network of facilities. One of the busiest places is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 million veterans records. The center responds to over a million requests each year in the documents preserved are evidence required veterans to obtain a wide variety of benefits, including military honors, v. A. Medical treatment and security clearan