Hay's Silver Pen Missing from NMAH

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Summary

A 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.

Subject

National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," March 1981, p. 3.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

February 10, 1981

Topic

  • Personnel management
  • Crime
  • Employees
  • Theft
  • Employee theft

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