The Archives Center at the National Museum of American History holds more some 12,500 cubic feet of personal papers, business records, photographs, recordings and other archival materials. Some of these collections are related only indirectly to the Museum's research and exhibition agendas and its artifact collections; others have much more direct connections. The photographs, documents, and records acquired along with individual artifacts together constitute a richer, more evocative, and more meaningful body of historical documentation.
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