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

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This is a high-resolution image of the United States Declaration of Independence ( article | text). This image is a verson 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).

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Public domain 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.

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current 01:15, 29 April 2007 3,923×4,656 (1.88 MB) Parhamr ({{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= }} )
12:50, 9 March 2006 1,961×2,328 (1.09 MB) Pathoschild (This is a high-resolution enhanced image of the United States Declaration of Independence ( article | text). It was originally uploaded by [[w:user:Aiden|Aiden])
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