May they never have to be hidden or kept in the dark again CD 1 -...

CALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Knecht, no. 3 (B size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-132001 (b&w film copy neg.)
May be restricted: Information on reproduction rights available in LC P&P Restrictions Statement.

SUMMARY:Cartoon drawing shows the Librarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeish, overseeing workers in the Central or Great Hall of the Library of Congress as they return the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence from their World War II hiding place in September 1944. Two weeks after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were sent by train to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for safekeeping. The documents were returned with great fanfare to public display at the Library on October 1, 1944.

MEDIUM:1 drawing.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1944]

CREATOR:

Knecht, Karl Kae, artist.

NOTES:

(DLC/PP-1944:R4.1)

Published in: Evansville Courier, Sept. 2, 1944.

This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985.

jr / 860516.

SUBJECTS:

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-
United States. Constitution.
United States. Declaration of Independence.
Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Washington, D.C.

FORMAT:

Cartoons (Commentary) American 1940-1950.
Drawings 1940-1950.

PART OF:Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film) acd 2a09987
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c32001

CARD #:acd1996005134/PP

Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3c30000-3c32000-3c32000-3c32001


LOC 1163668