This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Century time capsule opened early at Capitol ceremony
President Ford opens a Century time capsule from 1879 in Statuary Hall revealing photographs of Presidents Washington Lincoln and Grant and portraits of Hayes and others. The collection includes autographs, a Tiffany inkstand, a Longfellow pen, and a ledger noting 80,000 federal employees in 1876 versus 2.8 million today.
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Capitol
Ford
Statuary Hall
Washington
Tiffany
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rutherford B. Hayes
Congress
Charles T. Diehm
New York
Philadelphia
Longfellow
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
White House
Hayes