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!
East Carolina Professor and Family View Historic Documents
Dr. Richard C. Todd associate professor of history at East Carolina College Mrs Todd and their niece and nephew Bona Lee and Michael Burtron Pennock were selected to represent a typical American family viewing the Declaration of Independence the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the National Archives building in Washington The Todds were photographed for a General Services Administration feature and discussed the documents histories their storage and display under armed guard in a bombproof vault in Washington DC The vault safeguards include brass bound glass cases airless chambers helium filled air and a five ton vault door designed to resist fire theft and water damage
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Greenville
Richard C. Todd
East Carolina College
Todd
Bona Lee
Michael Burtron Pennock
National Archives Building
Washington
East Carolina
Jerry Knob
Ed Armour
Albert H. Leisingup
General Services Administration
National Archives
Continental Congress
Department of State
Library of Congress
Treassury
Fort Knox
Joint Congressional Committee On the Library