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Article: Press Preview of 'American Originals' at National Archives Dec. 16
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 10, 1998
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News Advisory:
The National Archives and Records Administration will host a
press preview Dec. 16 of "American Originals," a changing exhibition
of documentary treasures drawn from the nationwide holdings of the
National Archives. An entirely new selection of documents is
opening to the public on Dec. 18 in the Rotunda of the National
Archives.
For this event only, members of the media may photograph
or videotape the following items before they are placed in
protective display cases for the opening of "American Originals:
Part IV."
-- President George Washington's nomination of Thomas Jefferson
as the nation's first secretary of state;
-- Map of the California gold fields by William T. ...