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Declaration of Independence, 1776, 1st January 1823 (facsimile on vellum)

695930 Declaration of Independence, 1776, 1st January 1823 (facsimile on vellum) by Stone, William James (1798-1865); sheet:84x39 cm; Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA; (add.info.: The William J. Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, printed on parchment, with Stone's imprint. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, upon discovering the fragility of the original Declaration of Independence in 1820, ordered this exact facsimile to be produced. It took Stone three years to exactly copy and engrave the handwriting on the original document. This image is the closest facsimile of the original document. As such, the Stone facsimile has become the basis for all modern facsimiles. Two hundred copies of this broadside were distributed to surviving signers of the original document (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Carroll), members of the federal and state governments, and selected universities and colleges in the United States. Despite such wide distribution, only about 30 copies of this facsimile survive.); A© Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ; American, out of copyright

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The First Announcement of the Great Declaration (of Independence). John Nixon making the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in the States House Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 8 July 1776. Wood engraving, American, 1860

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'The First Announcement of the Great Declaration (of Independence). John Nixon making the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in the States House Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 8 July 1776. Wood engraving, American, 1860

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Declaration of Independence

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The first page of Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, written 11-28 June 1776, with verbal changes by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams noted thereon

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