The document is among 25 surviving poster-sized editions printed by John Dunlap and posted in public meeting places on the ...

On the evening of July 4, 1776, Continental Congress printer John Dunlap began production on the first published copies of the Declaration of Independence.

Explore the Museum of the American Revolution and discover the significance of the original Declaration of Independence ...

After the final wording of the Declaration of Independence was sent to the original printer, John Dunlap, he distributed about 200 copies known as the Dunlap Broadside to military leaders like ...

For those au fait with the Declaration of Independence, they would have been feeling a sense of despair and anxiety that this Declaration, like other beautifully crafted documents of their ...

It is a copy. An important one (the engrossed copy), but not the only, nor the earliest. On the evening of July 4, 1776, Continental Congress printer John Dunlap began production on the first ...

The “Dunlap Broadside” printing is the most valuable of the multiple printings identified. Today, around 26 examples remain extant, with nearly all in public institutions.