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The National Archives and Records

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record keeper. Of all documents and

materials created in the course of

business conducted by the United States

Federal government, only 1%-3% are so

important for legal or historical reasons

that they are kept by us forever.

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want to see if they contain clues about

your family’s history, need to prove a

veteran’s military service, or are

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Bringing History To Life: Documenting Artifacts

In a four-part presentation, researcher John Emond illustrates the importance of documenting artifacts so their history is preserved – not lost. The presentation shows how well-documented objects/artifacts help us to find and understand the broader historical context of when these objects were in use. • History Lost: Interesting items with • National Archives as a Repository of

tantalizing aspects showing age, but History: How historical information their stories are gone forever because held at the National Archives weaves of missing details. our shared stories together.

• History Preserved: Artifacts where • Oral History: Compelling personal details are well-documented, thus oral story examples provide first-hand helping to provide the broader accounts of moments in history -- what historical context. are your family's?


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Presenter’s Biography John Emond is an active collector of historical artifacts from the American Revolution and Civil War. He retired in 2011 after 30 years in government employ, most of it in various contract, technology transfer and project management at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Mr. Emond is currently a member of the Maritime Committee with the Maryland Historical Society and the planning committee for the Federal Inter-agency Holocaust Remembrance Program.


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BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE

December 12, 2018 NATIONAL ARCHIVES

John Emond NASA HQ (retired) Independent Researcher and Collector

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF CAPTURING HISTORY, EXAMPLES OF LOST AND PRESERVED HISTORY, AND YOUR ROLE IN CAPTURING HISTORY

II; THE N!TION!L !RCHIVES !S THE COUNTRY’S

REPOSITORY OF RECORDS

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF

CAPTURING HISTORY

Each object, each artifact has a

history that is lost if not identified,

not protected

“LOST” HISTORYLATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

POWDER HORN !ND KEG M!RKED “TW”-

OWNER UNKNOWN

“LOST” HISTORY“TW”. WHO W!S HE?

SOLDIER? FARMER? FRONTIERSMAN?

“LOST” HISTORY”AMERICAN REVOLUTION RUNDLET

M!RKED “1777” !ND “ML”

WHO W!S “ML”? �!TTLES FOUGHT?

“LOST” HISTORY AMERICAN REVOLUTION PERIOD

TAG RESIDUE BUT NO LONGER INFORMATION

“LOST HISTORY”: S!ILOR’S HORN“TIME P!SSETH SLOW, HOME SOON”

“LOST” HISTORYTINTYPE OF A CIVIL-WAR ERA WOMAN. PERHAPS THE WIFE OF MARTIN BUTTERFIELD, A UNION SOLDIER WHO DIED AS A PRISONER OF WAR, BUT WE WILL NEVER KNOW. THIS CAME WITH HIS DIARY BUT IT IS NOT MARKED.

35 STAR CIVIL WAR FLAG STAR ADDED WITH WEST VIRGINIA IN 1863

WHY IS THE FLAG MARKED 1862?

CANNON MYSTERY 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

FOUND SAVANNAH RIVER, BLOWN BARREL WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?

“PRESERVED” HISTORY

“PRESERVED” HISTORY • PISTOL, SWORD, CANTEEN, TIN CUP AND PLATE,

WILLIAM KEITH, 8TH NEW YORK CAVALRY. HISTORY CONFIRMED BY NOTARIZED FAMILY LETTER.

“PRESERVED” HISTORY• WILLIAM KEITH FOUGHT AT BRANDY STATION,

GETTYSBURG, AND SAW CONFEDERATE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX.

Preserved History: William Keith

Tintype

HISTORY LOST AND PRESERVED

“PRESERVED” HISTORY WILLIAM KEITH, 8TH NEW YORK CAVALRY

“PRESERVED” HISTORY. HENRY TI�E• WWI SWORD, SPURS, BELTS. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR LETTER TO

CAPTAIN HENRY TICE WHO SERVED UNDER MACARTHUR IN WWI/ �ONFIRMED �Y LETTER FROM �!PT!IN TI�E’S D!UGHTER/

LETTER FROM DOUGLAS MACARTHUR TO CAPTAIN HENRY TICE, SENT FROM WEST POINT

WWI CAPTAIN HENRY TICE ARTIFACTS CONFIRMED �Y PROVEN!N�E LETTER FROM TI�E’S D!UGHTER,

NOTING THE BATTLES HE FOUGHT IN FRANCE.

“PRESERVED” HISTORYWWI CAPTAIN HENRY TICE ARTIFACTS CONFIRMED �Y PROVEN!N�E LETTER FROM TI�E’S D!UGHTER

“PRESERVED” HISTORY• VIOLIN AND CASE, WITH TYPED NOTE FROM

MY GRANDFATHER NOTING THE CASE MADE IN 1890 AND VIOLIN MADE IN 1825.

“PRESERVED” HISTORYVIOLIN CASE MADE IN 1890

“PRESERVED” HISTORY • VIOLIN CASE, TYPED NOTE

“PRESERVED” HISTORY • TYPED NOTE DATING BOTH THE VIOLIN (1825)

AND CASE (1890)

PRESERVED: HUMBLE OBJECTS OF HISTORY

NEVIN MOYER SERVED IN: MEXICAN EXPEDITION AGAINST PANCHO VILLA, 1916

WWI IN EUROPE, 1917-1918

• “Old, grimy strap I carried along, it came in very handy to help strap my knapsack together when the pack straps were too short, 1917/18/19, England, France, Belgium”

• “Three halves of horseshoes off my first hob nail shoes issued to me in June, 1916”/ The tag notes he had these in U/S/ postings and then in WWI Europe, including the battles of Meuse and Argonne, as well as the battle of Ypres.

• “U.S. Navy Knife, I used on Mexican border 1916-1917, World War 1917-1919. Everybody knew this knife in my battery and nearly everyone used it”/

NEVIN MOYER COLLECTION

TWO AMERICAN FLAGS WHICH ONE DO YOU PREFER?

TWO AMERICAN FLAGS Patriotic, easily purchased for display Flown on STS 95, Oct. 1998 John Glenn Mission

JOHN GLENN STS 95 MISSION FLAG

IF THEY CAN PUT ONE MAN ON THE MOON---WHY NOT ALL OF THEM?

INTERESTING ITEMS WHO OWNED THEM? ORIGIN?

DR !R�HI�!LD M�F!DDEN , POSTED TO P!N!M! �!N!L ZONE MID 1950’S

TWO KEGS NORWEGIAN KEG/CANTEEN AMERICAN KEG/CANTEEN

DATED 1839, REASON ? CARRIED IN WAR OF 1812

TWO KEGS CARRIED BY THOMAS COOPER IN WAR WITH ENGLAND. GRANDSON ALONZO BOUCK DIED A

INITI!LS “EJP”, !NY HISTORY? UNION PRISONER IN A WAR BETWEEN AMERICANS

ORAL HISTORY APART FROM PRESERVING THE HISTORY BEHIND ARTIFACTS/OBJECTS,

ORAL HISTORIES SERVE TO PRESERVE LEGACIES. PERSONAL EXAMPLES:

• WILLIAM DUPLISEA

• P!TRICK O’DONNELL

• DR. JUDITH AMBRUS

• DIEN PHAM BROUGH

ORAL HISTORY • William Duplisea • William Duplisea car-pooled with my mother to work in Massachusetts in the 1950’s and 1960’s/

• William Duplisea survived the Bataan death march April, 1942.

• Patrick “Patsy” O’Donnell • One of 13 wounded on “�loody Sunday”, Derry Northern

Ireland, January 1972. Shot while protecting a woman from being fired on by British troops

• Dr. Judith Ambrus, NASA HQ program manager • Dr. Ambrus, her husband and infant daughter escaped from

an Iron Curtain country during the Cold War. They fled in the middle of the night, with only what they could carry on their backs; they could not withdraw substantial funds from a bank for fear of arousing suspicion.

ORAL HISTORY

Dac Lo High School 1973 Bataan, Philippines 1982

• Dien Pham Brough, sister in-law • She and her family survived the fall of Saigon. • Dien and others attempted an escape in 1979 but were

captured. • Dien and several family members made a second,

successful attempt in 1981. She spent time in refugee camps in Malaysia and the Philippines, eventually settling in the suburbs of Philadelphia PA.

YOU ARE A GENEALOGY LINK

TO THE FUTURE

• TRIAGE IS NEEDED; NOT EVERYTHING CAN OR SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED OR DOCUMENTED IN DETAIL.

• BUT PICTURES AND ITEMS THAT HAVE PERSONAL OR HISTORIC IMPORTANCE; ARTIFACTS OF THE FUTURE, SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED, TO PRESERVE THEIR HISTORY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

II. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES !S THE N!TION’S

REPOSITORY OF RECORDS

What Records Does NARA Hold?

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS WITH CONTINUING VALUE—ABOUT 2 TO 3% OF RECORDS CREATED

• Over 15 billion pages of textual records

• 18 million maps, charts, and architectural drawings

• More than 43 million images

• Billions of electronic records

• More than 365,000 reels of film

• Over 110,000 videotapes

Electronic Records

Collecting electronic records since 1970.

Now using Electronic Records Archives (ERA)

•Nearly 900 terabytes (TB) asof

FY2018, including:

• 414 TB of Federal records

• 155 TB of Congressionalrecords

• 79 TB of George W. Bush

Presidential records

• Approximately 250 TB ofObama Presidentialrecords

Researchers can access many records preserved in the Electronic Records Archives through the National Archives Catalog.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES I WASHINGTON, DC

• NATIONAL ARCHIVES CREATED BY CONGRESS IN 1934 TO BE THENATIONAL REPOSITORY OF FEDERAL RECORDS

SERVICES IN WASHINGTON DC:

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES/FREE ACCESS ON-SITE (ALL NARA FACILITIES):• Ancestry.com• Archives USA• Family Search• Fold 3• Heritage Quest

• CENSUS RECORDS 1790-1940• IMMIGRATION RECORDS/SHIP PASSENGER LISTS• MEDAL OF HONOR FILES• MILITARY AND PENSION RECORDS, LAND GRANTS, AMERICAN

REVOLUTION THROUGH SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES II COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND

• Archives II created in 1994 to accommodate growing need for archivalstorage and researcher needs

• Post-1900 Federal agency records including Justice, Commerce, Healthand Human Services, Transportation, etc.

• Modern military records

• Cartographic and architectural section associated with Federal agencies

• Motion Picture Archives

• Still Picture Archives

NATIONAL ARCHIVES

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Catalog: catalog.archives.gov

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HONOR THE PAST

PRESERVE THE PRESENT

TOUCH THE FUTURE

Thank you for attending! If we did not get to your question,

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