What do you think you’d find in a time capsule from 1924? That’s what everyone has been wondering as experts worked to remove this piece of history from within the Liberty Memorial Tower, where it was buried a hundred years ago. On October 16, we finally got answers during an unveiling ceremony at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. However, it took a surprising amount of elbow grease to get the vessel open in the first place!
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According to UPI, workers began exhuming the time capsule this summer. First, though, they had to get through 18 inches of stone and concrete. It looks like the people who put it there a century ago really didn’t want anyone to peek!
Watch officials “unbox” this 1924 time capsule 100 years later.
The Associated Press tells us that there was another obstacle that had to be dealt with. Among the objects inside the time capsule, there was some film from the 1920s. While that doesn’t sound dangerous, experts realized that there was a flammable substance within this material: nitrate. This meant that the container shouldn’t be opened without police supervision. Thankfully, a video from the National WWI Museum and Memorial explained that the Kansas City Police Department’s Bomb and Arson Unit was there to oversee the process.
After all that effort, there better have been something really cool inside this time capsule, right? Well, UPI listed some of the buried items, and there were several pretty historically significant documents, among other things! For example, there were letters from President Calvin Coolidge and a few WWI commanders. There was also a declaration of war from 1917, a copy of the Constitution, and some newspapers from the time period.
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