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Artifact Collection Highlights: Early 2021 Acquisitions
Our artifact donors’ generosity has resulted in an active start to our collecting in 2021. Highlights from these recent acquisitions include a photograph of new…
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Our Favorite Acquisitions of 2020
For the National Museum of American Diplomacy, building our collection has always involved a focus on both the past and the present. Collecting has focused…
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Ambassador Dudley's Passport and Items From a Diplomatic Courier
The National Museum of American Diplomacy has collected some significant items in recent weeks. These include a diplomatic passport issued to Ambassador Edward R. Dudley,…
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John Limbert: Bringing Meaning to a “Bunch of Old Clothes”
Think of a historic event you personally witnessed or experienced firsthand. Do you remember what you wore? The National Museum of American Diplomacy (NMAD) has several…
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Passport Travels: Meyer Franklin Kline, globetrotting guidebook editor
Have a case of wanderlust? As you take a look at this passport from the museum’s collection, join Meyer Franklin Kline and his wife Mildred…
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A 1928 Passport of Lucy Barnard Briggs, Diplomatic Spouse
Lucy Barnard Briggs used this passport in our collection for more than 12 years to travel the world. Shortly after her marriage to American diplomat…
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Philip Habib: America's Diplomat
Born to parents who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon, Philip C. Habib grew up in New York and joined the Foreign Service in…
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Rescue of American Diplomats from Iran: "Argo" and the Canadian Six
Joe and Kathleen Stafford were a young couple just starting out in their careers serving the United States in 1979. The Staffords were trained in…
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Piracy and Passports: How American merchants protected themselves from capture and enslavement
May 13 marks the 218th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson ordering U.S. naval vessels to stop Barbary interference with American trade in the Mediterranean. Jefferson’s…
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James H. Keeley's Medal of Freedom
“The Consulate General had its windows and doors blown in or out several times, and all of us had narrow escapes, but no one was…
