The nation's founding documents displayed under subdued light at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., [between 1980 and 2006]
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. The nation's founding documents displayed under subdued light at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. [Between 1980 and 2006] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011633881/. (Accessed September 27, 2016.)
National Archives Building: The National Archives serves as the repository of the most valuable and rare paper documents of the United States, such as the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, US government agencies and branches were responsible for maintaining their own documents, often resulting in the loss and destruction of…