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.)
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…