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1 item extracted from ADM 1/487. The Declaration of Independence: 'A Declaration...
Catalogue reference: EXT 9/1
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from ADM 1/487. The Declaration of Independence: 'A Declaration... dating from 1776 July 4 in the series Public Record Office: Items extracted to flat storage from various classes of records.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- EXT 9/1
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1776 July 4
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from ADM 1/487. The Declaration of Independence: 'A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled'. Printed by J Dunlap, Philadelphia, 4 July 1776. This item was formerly erroneously described as printed at New York by Hugo Gaine.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another Dunlap print, see EXT 9/93
See also EXT 9/26
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Archives and libraries
- Americas
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The United States Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. The Dunlap prints were the first official printings of the Declaration of Independence and were named after John Dunlap, the printer whose name is given at the bottom of each copy. It is likely that around 200 of these copies were printed. This is one of 26 known surviving copies worldwide.
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