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The Haunted Archives

To celebrate Halloween, our colleagues took a look in our cartographic records at the National Archives to see if they could find any spooky records. They came across the following Utility Patent Drawings which certainly help to set the mood for the Halloween season.

A number of jack-o’-lantern designs came up in the patent drawings. You can see many different concepts for lanterns in the series.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Halloween without dressing up in costume. Take a look at some of design drawings for masks.

RG 241, Utility Patent Drawings, 434435
RG 241, Utility Patent Drawings, 885802

Perhaps the creepiest of all is this patent drawing for a special coffin which includes a “Device for Indicating Life in Buried Persons.”

RG 241, Utility Patent Drawings, 371626

You can learn more about the National Archives’ patents in a previous blog post, Utility Patent Drawings, and in our catalog here.

Source: unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov
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jedistranger

I justify my impulses by the fact I’m going to be dead one day and none of it truly matters in the grand scheme of things

it’s that “treat yo self” nihilism

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