MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2003576546
003 DLC
005 20070425142639.0
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008 030818s1776 pau 000 0 eng
010 $a 2003576546
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrb$dDLC
050 00 $aPortfolio 39b
110 1 $aUnited States.
240 10 $aDeclaration of Independence.
245 10 $aIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled.
246 1 $iAlso known as:$aDunlap Declaration of Independence
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bPrinted by John Dunlap,$c[1776]
300 $a1 sheet ([1] p.) ;$c47 x 38 cm.
500 $a"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, President. Attest., Charles Thomson, Secretary."
500 $aThe first printing of the Declaration of Independence.
500 $aGoff notes a difference in the placement of the imprint in two states of the broadside. In the earlier state the "P" of Philadephia is under the comma after Thomson's name, in the later state the "P" is under the "n" in Thomson's name.
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
510 4 $aEvans$b15155
510 4 $aGoff, F.R. John Dunlap broadside,$c10
510 4 $aWalsh, M.J. Broadside editions of the Declaration of Independence. (Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43),$c1
500 $aLC copy is the second state. Inscribed on verso in ink: Independence.$5DLC
561 $aLC copy has pencilled inscription on verso in Ridgely's hand: For Col. P. Force, Washington, from D. Ridgely, Annapolis.$5DLC
655 7 $aBroadsides$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia.$2lcsh
700 1 $aDunlap, John,$d1747-1812.
700 1 $aForce, Peter,$d1790-1868,$eformer owner.$5DLC
700 1 $aRidgely, David,$d1790?-1841?$5DLC
710 2 $aPrinted Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
856 41 $uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/pe.76546