Saving America's treasures /
Showcases some of America's priceless historical artifacts, documents, and sites that, because of neglect, age, or lack of funding, are in danger of being lost forever.
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Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Preserving America's story / Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Founding Fathers' Papers (Nationwide)
- Congressional Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
- Star-Spangled Banner (Washington, D.C.)
- Saving our treasures and ourselves / Ray Suarez.
- Political leanings : There and then / Thomas Mallon
- Sewall-Belmont House (Washington, D.C.)
- Thomas Jefferson's poplar forest (Forest, Virginia)
- Lewis and Clark Herbarium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- The Lincoln and Soldiers' Home (Washington, D.C.)
- Manzanar Internment Camp (Inyo County, California)
- Harriet Tubman Home (Auburn, New York)
- Valley Forge winter encampment (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania)
- Aviation nose art, WW II (Midland, Texas)
- Old Charleston City Jail (Charleston, South Carolina)
- Val-Kill Cottage, home of Eleanor Roosevelt (Hyde Park, New York).
- American diversions : Coney Island reverie / Francine Prose
- Colonial Theatre (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
- Babe Ruth's scrapbooks (Cooperstown, New York)
- Asbury Park Convention Hall (Asbury Park, New Jersey)
- American Film Archives (Nationwide)
- Cà d'Zan, home of John and Mable Ringling (Sarasota, Florida)
- Conservatory of Flowers (San Francisco, California)
- Schooner yacht Coronet (Newport, Rhode Island)
- Louis Armstrong Archives (Queens, New York)
- The Mount, home of Edith Wharton (Lenox, Massachusetts)
- Vista House at Crown Point (Multnomah County, Oregon)
- Taliesin, home of Frank Lloyd Wright (Spring Green, Wisconsin).
- Communities of faith : Searching for higher ground / Phyllis Theroux
- African Meeting House (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Mormon Row (Moose, Wyoming)
- Maui Jinsha Shrine (Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii)
- San Esteban del Rey Mission (Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico)
- Prairie churches (Statewide, North Dakota)
- Breed Street Shul (Los Angeles, California)
- St. Louis cemeteries, I and 2 (New Orleans, Louisiana).
- Nation at work : Temples of industry / Henry Petroski
- Pullman Factory and Town (Chicago, Illinois)
- Thomas Edison's Invention Factory (West Orange, New Jersey)
- Portland Observatory (Portland, Maine)
- Thomas Day House (Milton, North Carolina)
- Tenth Street Bridge (Great Falls, Montana)
- Washburn-Crosby "A" Mill (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Michigan lighthouses (Statewide, Michigan)
- B & O Roundhouse (Martinsburg, West Virginia)
- Teeple Barn (Elgin, Illinois).
- Land of the free : On this site / Ian Frazier
- Castle Clinton (New York, New York)
- Mesa Verde cliff dwelling sites (Mesa Verde, Colorado)
- Native American artwork (Washington, D.C.)
- Angel Island Immigration Station (Marin County, California)
- Ybor City (Tampa, Florida)
- Afterword / Richard Moe.