May 13, 1942, Securing the Declaration of Independence at the U.S. Bullion Depository, Fort Knox, 3:30 p.m. Under the watchful eyes of Verner Clapp and two restoration experts from Harvard, guards carried the case containing the Declaration of Independence from the vault to the north room, which had been set up as a work area.

May 14, 2018 · The Declaration was periodically examined during its sojourn at Fort Knox. One such examination in 1942 found that the Declaration had become detached in part from its mount, including the upper right corner, which had been stuck down with copious amounts of glue.

Sep 25, 2016 · At a December 29 meeting— just two days after the train carrying the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address arrived at Fort Knox— the National Gallery of Art ...

Dec 6, 2016 · Though the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution both live in the National Archives today, at the time they were stored in the Library of Congress. But with fear of a Japanese...

Two weeks after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were sent by train to Fort Knox, Ky., for safekeeping.

Having been exhibited at the foot of Jefferson’s statue and viewed by thousands for those first few days the memorial was open, the Declaration of Independence was returned to Fort Knox, where it would remain until 1944, when military authorities assured the Library of Congress that the danger of attack had passed.

May 27, 2016 · In December 1941, after Pearl Harbor, the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents were moved from their then-home at the Library of Congress to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where they remained until after the war.

Oct 10, 2024 · The intention was to create a monumental exhibit space for the nation’s most important founding documents, the Chaters of Freedom. In 1933, President Herbert Hoover announced that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution would be exhibited at the National Archives building.

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.

Sep 1, 2021 · During the tumultuous years of World War II, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was on a mission to protect the documents from potential damage. His solution? Stored them at Fort Knox! It was perhaps one of the most “hush …