Peek Inside the World's Oldest Sealed Time Capsule

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The New York Historical Society, a museum and library in Manhattan, just travelled back in time

The Historical Society opened a 100-year-old time capsule Wednesday at the museum. The society claims it's the oldest sealed one in the world. The large, ornate bronze box was sealed in 1914 by members of the Lower Wall Street Business Men's Association and the former mayor of the city, Seth Low.

Coupled with the opening, teenage historians who intern at the museum presented a new time capsule

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The century-old capsule had actually gone forgotten for decades. Originally its compilers had intended it to be opened in 1974, to commemorate the tricentennial of the New Netherland Company Charter, but museum members simply did not know about its existence Read more...

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