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English: Director of the Reference Department, David Mearns (left), Librarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeish (center) and Director of the Acquisitions Department, Verner W. Clapp (right) examine the Declaration of Independence upon its return to Washington, D.C. near the end of Word War II, during which it had been kept safe at Ft. Knox, Kentucy.
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Source Information Bulletin, Library of Congress, August 1997, Vol 56, No. 13, p271
Author Library of Congress

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The Declaration of Independence being examined by Library of Congress officials upon its return from wartime safekeeping at Ft. Knox, Sept. 1944

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