Source credits and classroom copying

All six item-specific National Archives catalog records identify Use Restriction as Unrestricted. This is the stated item-use status, not an inference that private writing is a federal government work. Originals are supplied unchanged in the sources folder; source cards are attributed Mentor Teaching paraphrases with short exact excerpts, not full transcriptions.

• Hypatia Women’s Club: two pages, February 5, 1910. Records of the U.S. Senate, National Archives item 7268040. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268040
• Graffort Club: one page, February 4, 1910. Records of the U.S. Senate, item 7268048. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268048
• Citizens of Merced and Stanislaus counties: one page, May 30, 1913. Records of the U.S. Senate, item 7268067. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268067
• Widows and Orphans and Mutual Aid Associations: one page, November 24, 1913. Records of the U.S. Senate, item 7268071. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268071
• Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs: two pages, November 25, 1913. Records of the U.S. Senate, item 7268076. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268076
• Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardner Central Labor Union: one undated page; catalog identifies 1913. Records of the U.S. Senate, item 7268079. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7268079

Hypatia’s feature-page caption gives February 2; the original and catalog give February 5, used here. For Maine, no January 1 date is asserted. Both Gardner and Gardiner spellings occur in the archive’s presentation; this packet follows the typed original.

• Proposed H.R.7207, first-page image, introduced August 1 and ordered printed August 5, 1913. National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hetch-hetchy/hr7207.html
• Act approved December 19, 1913, U.S. Statutes at Large, volume 38, chapter 4, pages 242–251. U.S. Government Publishing Office PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-38/pdf/STATUTE-38-Pg242.pdf
• Historical overview: National Archives, The Hetch Hetchy Environmental Debates. https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hetch-hetchy
• Indigenous context: National Park Service, Hetch Hetchy. https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hh.htm
• National Archives copyright and reuse guidance: https://www.archives.gov/global-pages/privacy.html
• Government Publishing Office reuse guidance: https://www.govinfo.gov/about/policies

The congressional bill and enacted statute are U.S. federal government works. The National Archives guidance distinguishes government works from privately created material; use the six exact catalog records for the private petitions. GPO government-publication guidance supplies the basis for copying the statute. Credits identify the original institutions without suggesting their endorsement of this teaching collection.

The Act PDF contains the end of the Raker Act and the beginning of subsequent Acts on page 251. Section 1 is on page 242; section 2 begins on page 243; the Raker Act approval is on page 251. Do not treat adjacent law text as part of this inquiry.

Context about Indigenous use of Hetch Hetchy comes from the National Park Service, not from the six selected requests. The context does not supply a community’s stance on this bill. Add further Indigenous-authored sources only after checking their provenance, rights and historical scope.

Original instructional text may be copied and adapted for planning and classroom use under https://mentorteaching.com/terms-of-use/. Preserve source credits and keep teacher answers separate from student copies.