Hay's Silver Pen Missing from NMAH
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PrintA silver pen used by Secretary of States John Hay to sign the treaty ending the Spanish-American War is discovered missing from the National Museum of American History. One day previously the pen had been photographed, along with a number of other items, for a book. It is recovered by the FBI and returned to the SI on August 19, 1981.
National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," March 1981, p. 3.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February 10, 1981