America's Founding Documents Sit on an Iowa-Made Foundation (AUDIO) - Radio Iowa

America's founding documents sit on an Iowa-made foundation (AUDIO) - Radio Iowa

Our nation’s three most important and revered documents are enclosed in titanium display cases in the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and they rest on custom-made archival paper created at the University of Iowa. Tim Barrett, the now-retired director of the UI Center for the Book, says he got the call in […]

University of Iowa remembers involvement in preserving founding documents

A little-known lab at the University of Iowa as a special link to one of America's founding documents.The Center of the Book makes handmade archival paper

America’s founding documents sit on an Iowa-made foundation

(Radio Iowa) – Our nation’s three most important and revered documents are enclosed in titanium display cases in the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and they rest on custom-made archival paper created at the University of Iowa. Tim Barrett, the now-retired director of the U-I Center for the Book, says he got the call in 1999 to create the special paper to cradle the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of In…