If you visited the National Archives Building in late 1974, you could purchase a specially designed holiday card with this design: Drawing of Santa Claus viewing Charters of Freedom used on National Archives holiday greeting cards, 1974. (National Archives Identifier 35810640) The card showed Santa Claus and one of his reindeers looking at the Declaration … Continue reading Happy Holidays from the National Archives!
Today’s post on the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act (PRMPA) comes from Laurel Gray, a processing intern with the Textual Division at the National Archives in Washington, DC. It is the second of a four-part series on the archival ramifications of the Watergate scandal. President Nixon sits before edited transcripts of his White House taped conversations … Continue reading More Than Watergate: The PRMPA
December 15 is Bill of Rights Day, which commemorates the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Today we’re looking at the man who cared for the original Bill of Rights—and 126 other documents—during the 16-month Freedom Train trip across the country. Visitors looking at the Bill of Rights in the Freedom … Continue reading The Guardian of the Freedom Train’s Cargo: Delmar Robb
