Several Items Missing From National Archives

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › July 06, 2009

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WASHINGTON - 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:

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Several Items Missing From National Archives

* Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln.

* Original signatures of Andrew Jackson.

* Presidential portraits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

*...

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