Washington, D.C. Statue on the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the National Archives of the United States. The inscription reads: "What is past is prologue," May 1942

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Washington, D.C. Statue on the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the National Archives of the United States. The inscription reads: "What is past is prologue," May 1942

Ferrell, John, photographer. Washington, D.C. Statue on the Pennsylania Avenue entrance to the National Archives of the United States The inscription reads: "What is past is prologue". May, 1942. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa1998022954/PP/. (Accessed September 27, 2016.)

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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 records. In 1934, Congress created the National…