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The Art Handler Who Saved the Emancipation Proclamation From Drowning in Mountain Dew

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 6, 2019September 13, 2019

Calder Brannock was told he was just transporting an empty vitrine from the National Archives in DC north toward New York. That wasn’t the full truth.

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Declassified Drawings from the British Government’s UFO Desk

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 13, 2017May 17, 2022

UFO Drawings From The National Archives by David Clarke publishes eyewitness illustrations of unidentified flying objects.

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The Indian Removal Act Is on View at the National Archives for the First Time

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 8, 2017May 8, 2017

Visitors can read the handwritten 1830 act that was signed by Andrew Jackson and led to the forced removal of indigenous tribes across the United States.

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FDR’s Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Incarceration Shown on West Coast for First Time

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 3, 2017

On the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order that led to the imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, the document went on display at Los Angeles’s Japanese American National Museum.

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National Archive GIFs Tell US History in Motion

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 12, 2016October 11, 2016

The National Archives launches an online resource of GIFs from its collections of historic film, photography, art, and animation.

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40,000 Canisters of Aerial Film from World War II Land Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 24, 2016February 26, 2016

Aerial photography dates to the early years of the 20th century, when pioneers like George R. Lawrence launched cameras into the skies with kites.

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Nature in an Acid Bath: Early Color Films of National Park Vistas

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 24, 2015October 2, 2015

In the 1930s the National Park Service created silent films, hand-tinted and toned with vibrant color, to promote outdoor oases to American travelers.

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For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 23, 2015March 23, 2015

What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.

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Inflatable Corsets, Ventilated Top Hats, and Other Failed Victorian Inventions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 8, 2014December 16, 2014

Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.

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