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Celebrate America250 with The Story of US—a once-in-a-generation exhibition of America’s most treasured documents and rarely seen artifacts.
 

National Archives documents on loan for this exhibit include:

• Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)

• Treaty of Paris Broadside (1783)

• Bill of Rights Senate revisions version (1789)

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)

• Missouri Compromise (1820)

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v. John F. A. Sandford (1857)

• Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Ft. Sumter (1861)

• Joint Resolution, Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

• Judgement in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points (1918)

• Manhattan Project Notebook (1942)

• Surrender of Germany (1945)

• Executive Order 9981 Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

• North Atlantic Treaty (1949)

• Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)

•  Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

•  Executive Order 10730 Desegregation of Central HS (1957)

•  Voting Rights Act (1965)

•  Photograph of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Jr. on the Moon w/ the U.S. Flag (1969) facimile

•  Joint Resolution, Twenty-Sixth Amendment; 18-Year-Old Vote (1971)

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