The Constitution of the United States of America
Contributors: Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964, former owner
Publisher: Leonard Hassam Bogart; Albertype Co.?
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Brooklyn?
Language: eng
Subjects: Constitutions
Notes: Leaf [3]: collotype portrait of George Washington; leaf [4]: collotype portrait of Thomas Jefferson.

1 sheet "Pillars of Democracy" describing the edition and a presentation card from the Committee of Americans laid in.

"The Committee of Americans has been unusually fortunate in securing the major portion of the first printing of a priceless set of photographic reproductions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation..."

"In 1875 Mr. A. Witteman was commissioned by the officials of the Centennial to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Signing of the Declaration of Independence to be held in Philadelphia in 1876, to photograph and reproduce the most important historical documents."

"Mr. Witteman died in 1938. All his original negatives were entrusted to Leonard Hassam Bogart, a well known collector of American historical documents. He was authorized to reproduce any or all of these negatives at his discretion, but only by the Albertype process. Witteman was the perfector of Doctor Joseph Albert's process in 1884, and in 1887 named his company in honor of this process."

"The first reproductions of these documents, from the original negative, is limited to five hundred copies each being numbered..."