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Boxes placed in Smithsonian in 1881 by telephone inventor opened for first time. Washington, D.C., Oct. Three boxes which Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and two associates placed in the secret archives of the Smithsonian Institution in 1881 and which have remained [un][?]opened since, were formally opened today in the presence of Bell's two daughters and a group of scientists. The boxes contained among other things the original working model of the first machine ever to record on wax and reproduce the Human voice. In the photograph, left to right: Mrs. David Fairchild, daughter of the inventor; Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, another daughter; Alexander Graham Bell, great-grandson of Bell; T.H. Beard, Director or Research of the Dictaphone Co.; Dr. Charles Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and H.W. Dorsey, also of the Smithsonian. 10/27/37

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Chicago, Illinois. Subsistence research laboratory of the U.S. Army quartermaster depot. K ration is highly concentrated, and is used only in time of emergency and continuous combat when regular messing facilities are not available. Packed in three boxes for three meals, it weighs only 32.86 oz. and contains 3,726 calories. It is so packed that it will not be affected by temperatures up to 135-F or down to 20 below zero

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Chicago, Illinois. Subsistence research laboratory of the U.S. Army quartermaster depot. K ration is highly concentrated, and is used only in time of emergency and continuous combat when regular messing facilities are not available. Packed in three boxes for three meals, it weighs only 32.86 oz. and contains 3,726 calories. It is so packed that it will not be affected by temperatures up to 135-F or down to 20 below zero

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More