Four Declarations Compared
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These are not the only early examples, but I’ll leave that to scholars like John Bidwell, author of The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document reviewed in the same issue.
The images were harvested from the public sources cited on the inside cover and modified here:
Four printed versions of the Declaration of Independence:. From left: the Dunlap Broadside, the Goddard Broadside (courtesy of the Library of Congress); the “unofficial” (and probably earlier) of two Salem broadsides (courtesy of Georgetown University Library); and the Exeter Broadside (courtesy of the Boston Public Library).



