[FPSPACE] Historic Papers Missing From Archives

[LARRY KLAES]

Historic Papers Missing From Archives
 
By LARRY MARGASAK, AP
 
posted: 1 DAY 3 HOURS AGO comments: 454 filed under: National News 
 
WASHINGTON (July 4) – National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
 
Many historical items the Archives once possessed are missing, including:
 
Over the years, many pieces of America’s history have vanished from the National Archives. Some were stolen. Some were checked out and never returned. Others simply disappeared. 
 
Here, the first of the three-page patent application for the Wright brothers’ Flying Machine is shown. The document was last seen in 1980. 
 
— Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln.
 
— Original signatures of Andrew Jackson.
 
— Presidential portraits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
 
— NASA photographs from space and on the moon.
 
— Presidential pardons.
 
Some were stolen by researchers or Archives employees. Others simply disappeared without a trace.
 
And there’s more gone from the nation’s record keeper.
 
Full article here:
 
http://news.aol.com/article/national-archives-missing-items/556022
 
 

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