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The original image of the Declaration of Independence (with annotations on it)

Summary

This is a high-resolution image of the United States Declaration of Independence ( article | text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving).

Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright. Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. العربية | Česky | Deutsch | Español | Français | Magyar | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Polski | Português | 简体中文 | 正體中文 | +/-

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• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 March 22
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