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National Archives Building
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the University of Maryland, [1] mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various ...
The National Archives Building, known informally as Archives I, located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., opened as its original headquarters in 1935. It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution ...
A special branch known as the "Charters of Freedom" is responsible for the upkeep and storage of the actual United States Constitution and other critical historical documents located in the National Archives Rotunda in Washington, DC. The museum services branch also creates and oversees all public exhibits of National Archives materials.
District of Columbia Archives. / 38.907869; -77.024629. The District of Columbia Archives, formally, the Office of Public Records Management, Archival Administration, and Library of Governmental Information, is the state-level archives of the District of Columbia. [ 1] Its principal archival holdings reside in a converted stable in the Blagden ...
The National Archives of France was created informally on July 29, 1789 by the Revolutionaries to document the prior Ancien Régime. [4] The crown's Treasury of Charters as well as private records from the clergy were collected for historical value as those parties were deemed irrelevant to French society.
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...