Print, Declaration of Independence, 1823
date: label: associated date
content: 1823
name: label: associated person
content: Stone, William J.
notes: label: Description
content: Congressmen voted for independence on July 2, 1776, then spent two days editing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the text. They officially declared independence on July 4. In August they signed a carefully lettered parchment copy that today is housed in the National Archives. Worried that the original signed Declaration of Independence was fading, then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned engraver William Stone to create a copper plate to produce facsimiles of the text in 1823. This facsimile was printed from Stone’s plate.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: independence
label: general subject association
content: National Symbols
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. W. J. Stone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.004685
label: catalog number
content: 4685
label: accession number
content: 21086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: engraving (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 in x 28 in; 81.28 cm x 71.12 cm