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The Other Mary

Mary Say’s treatment of the Declaration would have shocked Mary Katharine Goddard

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First London, Then Belfast

As the Declaration traveled from Philadelphia to New York to London to Belfast, John Dunlap’s name was left behind

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Liberty of the Press

Samuel Loudon’s experience of a mob storming his house and burning his pamphlets showed how printers could be held responsible for their products

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Collecting

Harbottle Dorr understood the history reflected in the content of the Declaration

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Genuine Principles

More copies of The Genuine Principles of the Ancient Saxon survive than any other early printing of the Declaration of Independence

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Free and Independent Sates

Although Isaiah Thomas was one of the most famous pro-independence printers in the colonies, he did not have the opportunity to print the Declaration of Independence

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The Newport Press

Five months after he printed the Declaration, Southwick decided to leave Newport, but first, he buried his printing press

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Papermaking and Parchment

The copy of the Declaration of Independence that is associated with a Rittenhouse was printed on parchment, not paper

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The Thing

Thomas Jefferson made sure that Richard Henry Lee saw two versions of the Declaration

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Last Remains

Evidence suggests a connection between this broadside and a delegate from Edenton, Joseph Hewes

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For the Town Clerk

This broadside was sent to Portsmouth in the summer of 1776 and has remained in the town clerk’s office ever since

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Hoofdzakelyk

For Johannes Enschedé, the main part of the Declaration did not include the grievances

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Road Trip

Thanks to Norman Lear, this Dunlap broadside went from hidden to hyper-visible

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Dunmore’s Cruel Declaration

When readers opened their newspapers and read the Declaration, their eyes may have drifted to the graphic descriptions of people seeking freedom, yet left for dead

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