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National Archives Items to Be Featured in the World Digital Library

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) plans to contribute digital copies of items from its archival holdings to the World Digital Library. The World Digital Library will be a free web site featuring multilingual, primary source materials from cultural institutions around the world. A video of the World Digital Library prototype is available online.

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Engrossed Declaration of Independence, 08/02/1776 (ARC ID 1419123) Dunlap Broadside [Declaration of Independence], 07/04/1776 (ARC ID 301682) Articles of Confederation, 03/01/1781 (ARC ID 301687) Treaty of Paris, 09/03/1783 (ARC ID 299805) Constitution of the United States, 09/17/1787 (ARC ID 1667751)
Bill of Rights, 09/25/1789 (ARC ID 1408042) Illustrated Family Record (Fraktur) Found in Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application File W3079, for Philip Frey, Pennsylvania, ca. 1800 - ca. 1900 (ARC ID 300195) Treaty between the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians, 11/17/1807 (ARC ID 596331) Active Passage, Saturna Group, Looking West, 1857 - 1862 (ARC ID 305490) Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, (ARC ID 530413)
Map of the Battles of Bull Run Near Manassas, 1861-1862 (ARC ID 594732) Letter Written in Cipher on Mourning Paper by Rose Greenhow, 08/23/1861 (ARC ID 1634036) President Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 (ARC ID 530415) Emancipation Proclamation, 01/01/1863 (ARC ID 299998) To the Woods!, 11/1/1906 (ARC ID 306110)
Affidavit of Loui Young Stating that He is the Father of Louie Jock Sung, and Deposition of Non Chinese Witnesses (Documents Were Executed in New York City), 2/15/1909 (ARC ID 278671) Two 7 Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee, 11/13/1910 (ARC ID 523340) Certificate of Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Accompanied by Resolution and Transcript of the Journals of the two Houses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, 8/24/1920 (ARC ID 306664) Looking across Lake toward Mountains, Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1933-1942 (ARC ID 519861) Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (Vertical Orientation), 1933-1942 (ARC ID 519942)
Taken at Dusk or Dawn from Various Angles during Eruption, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (Vertical Orientation), 1933-1942 (ARC ID 520016) Trees with Snow on Branches, Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite, California, 04/1933 (ARC ID 520018) View from River Valley, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona (Vertical Orientation), 1933-1942 (ARC ID 519851) Edison, Kern County, California, Young Migratory Mother, Originally from Texas, 4/11/1940 (ARC ID 521780) Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68, 4/11/1940 (ARC ID 521788)
Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California, Children Living in Camp, 4/12/1940 (ARC ID 521700) Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, Migrant [African-American] Cotton Picker and Her Baby, 11/1940 (ARC ID 522540) Adolf Hitler in Paris, 6/23/1940 (ARC ID 540179) Declaration of Intention for Albert Einstein, 10/1/1940 (ARC ID 596270) Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation, 5/8/1942 (ARC ID 537507)
We Can Do It!, ca. 1942 - ca. 1943 (ARC ID 535413) Basic and Advanced Flying School for Negro Air Corps Cadets, Tuskegee, Alabama... In the Center is Capt. Roy F. Morse, Air Corps. He is Teaching the Cadets How to Send and Receive Code, 01/1942 (ARC ID 535830) Declaration of Intention of Maria von Trapp, 1/21/1944 (ARC ID 596198) WWII: Europe: France, Into the Jaws of Death - U.S. Troops Wading through Water and Nazi Gunfire, ca. 06/06/1944 (ARC ID 195515) A Youngster, Clutching His Soldier Father, Gazes upward While the Latter Lifts His Wife from the Ground to Wish Her a Merry Christmas, 12/1944 (ARC ID 535527)
George Bush, Captain of the Yale Baseball Team, Receives Babe Ruth's Manuscript of His Autobiography Which He Was Donating to Yale, 1948 (ARC ID 186375) Letter from Linda Kelly, Sherry Bane, and Mickie Mattson to President Dwight D. Eisenhower Regarding Elvis Presley, (ARC ID 594359) President Greets Peace Corps Volunteers, White House, South Lawn, 09/01/1962 (ARC ID 194180) Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, in a Crowd], 8/28/1963 (ARC ID 542014) Photograph of Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House, 12/21/1970 (ARC ID 1634221)
Earth, as Seen by Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmidt from Apollo 17, 12/1972 (ARC ID 553803) Hitchhiker with His Dog, Tripper, on U.S. 66, U.S. 66 Crosses the Colorado River at Topock, 05/1972 (ARC ID 549112) The George Washington Bridge in Heavy Smog, View toward the New Jersey Side of the Hudson River, 05/1973 (ARC ID 548335)    
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