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Bibframe Work

Title
Declaration of Independence collection
Type
Mixed Material
Collection
Language
English
Content
text
Note
Language: Collection material in English.
Summary
Copies of correspondence, resolutions, ordinances, and other papers relating to the drafting and adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Includes nineteenth and early twentieth-century printed copies of the Declaration of Independence; the Virginia Constitution and Declaration of Rights, 1776; the resolution for independence passed by the Continental Congress on June 7, 1776; Thomas Jefferson''s record of debates in the Continental Congress, July 1-12, 1776 (originals in the Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress); and two copies of William James Stone's facsimile edition of the Declaration of Independence, published for the U.S. secretary of state in 1823, and one later edition of Stone's facsimile.
Origin Date(s)
1776-1942
Authorized Access Point
Declaration of Independence collection