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The National Archives is the holding area of the most valuable records and remarkable documents of the U.S. government. In the Exhibition Hall, of the archives building, are the U.S. Constitution, the original Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and other historical documents dating from 1774 to 1790 on permanent display. It also hold other records such as treaties, laws, presidential proclamations and executive orders, military reports, records of Native American affairs, census schedules, historically significant maps and charts, sound recordings, motion pictures, and still pictures; the most dignitary are the valuable collection of American civil war photographs by Mathew Brady. The National Archives reflects and recorded more than two hundred years of American development. Its thirty-four facilities hold about 2.9 million cubic feet of original text materials; that would be more than eight million pieces of paper from the Federal Government, which are the......

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