![]() ![]() At that time, an estimated 70 percent of all banks in the United States used Mosler safes and vaults.Īrchives officials announced they would unveil the documents on Bill of Rights day that year. The National Archives contracted with the Mosler Safe Company to construct a vault beneath the exhibition hall’s floor. While the Archives exhibition hall had been specifically designed to display the two documents, it did not have a safe place to store the documents when they weren’t on exhibit. ![]() The two documents were to go on public display in the National Archives Building along with the Bill of Rights, which was already at the Archives. In April 1952 Congress ordered the Library of Congress to transfer the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to the National Archives. Progress on installing the vault in the Exhibition Hall, November 7, 1952. ![]()
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